12 The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Ecclesiastes 10:12. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
דִּבְרֵ֥י פִי־חָכָ֖ם חֵ֑ן וְשִׂפְת֥וֹת כְּסִ֖יל תְּבַלְּעֶֽנּוּ׃
דִּבְרֵ֥י
פִי
חֵ֑ן
וְשִׂפְת֥וֹת
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Λόγοι στόματος σοφοῦ χάρις, καὶ χείλη ἄφρονος καταποντιοῦσιν αὐτόν.
Λόγοι
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- λόγος
- Transliteration
- logoi
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative plural
- Gloss
- words, matters
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Word, speech, account, matter, or reason.
- Strong's
- G3056
- Occurrences
- 1103
στόματος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- στόμα
- Transliteration
- stoma
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative singular
- Gloss
- mouth
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Mouth, opening, or speech.
- Occurrences
- 384
σοφοῦ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- σοφοῦ
- Transliteration
- sophoy
- Morphology
- genitive singular masculine/neuter pattern
- Gloss
- of ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective/pronoun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 14
χάρις
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- χάρις
- Transliteration
- charis
- Morphology
- nominative singular feminine third-declension pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 135
καὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καί
- Transliteration
- kai
- Morphology
- coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and, also, even
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Coordinating conjunction.
- Strong's
- G2532
- Occurrences
- 56730
χείλη
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- χεῖλος
- Transliteration
- cheile
- Morphology
- noun, neuter nominative/accusative plural
- Gloss
- lips
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Lip, edge, or shore.
- Occurrences
- 117
ἄφρονος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἄφρονος
- Transliteration
- aphronos
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 18
καταποντιοῦσιν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- καταποντιοῦσιν
- Transliteration
- katapontioysin
- Morphology
- verb, present/future active indicative, 3rd plural
- Gloss
- they ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
αὐτόν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- αὐτός
- Transliteration
- autos
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, himself
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- Third-person personal/intensive pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 26672
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܡ̈ܠܝ ܦܘܡܗ ܕܚܟܝܡܐ ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ ܘܣ̈ܦܘܬܗ ܕܣܟܠܐ ܡܛܒ̈ܥܢ ܠܗ
ܡ̈ܠܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܠܝ
- Transliteration
- mly
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 36
ܦܘܡܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܦܘܡܗ
- Transliteration
- pwmh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 115
ܕܚܟܝܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܚܟܝܡܐ
- Transliteration
- dhkym'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 22
ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܬܫܒܘܚܬܐ
- Transliteration
- tshbwht'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 54
ܘܣ̈ܦܘܬܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܣܦܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- wspwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 3
ܕܣܟܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܣܟܠܐ
- Transliteration
- dskl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 29
ܡܛܒ̈ܥܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܛܒܥܢ
- Transliteration
- mtb'n
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܠܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܗ
- Transliteration
- lh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 2252
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
מִלֵּי פוּם גְּבַר חַכִּים דְּאִשְׁתְּכַח בְּדָרָא כַּד אָתֵי פוּרְעָנוּתָא לְעַלְמָא מְצַלֵּי וּמַעֲדֵּי יָת פּוּרְעָנוּתָא וּמַשְׁכַּח רַחֲמִין קֳדָם יְיָ וְסִפְוָתֵיהּ דְּגַבְרָא שָׁטְיָא מִלִּין דִּנְזִיפוּתָא וּבְגִין כֵּן כּוּלֵּי עָלְמָא מִתְגַּמְרִין׃
מִלֵּי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מלי
- Transliteration
- mly
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 102
פוּם
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פום
- Transliteration
- pwm
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 45
גְּבַר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גבר
- Transliteration
- gbr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 627
חַכִּים
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חכים
- Transliteration
- chkym
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 42
דְּאִשְׁתְּכַח
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אשתכח
- Transliteration
- d'shtkch
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 42
בְּדָרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- דרא
- Transliteration
- bdr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 49
כַּד
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- כד
- Transliteration
- kd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 581
אָתֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אתי
- Transliteration
- 'ty
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 138
פוּרְעָנוּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פורענותא
- Transliteration
- pwr'nwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 55
לְעַלְמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עלמא
- Transliteration
- l'lm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 549
מְצַלֵּי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- צלי
- Transliteration
- mtsly
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 81
וּמַעֲדֵּי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מעדי
- Transliteration
- wm'dy
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 4
יָת
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ית
- Transliteration
- yt
- Morphology
- accusative/direct object marker
- Gloss
- direct object marker
- Occurrences
- 4303
פּוּרְעָנוּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פורענותא
- Transliteration
- pwr'nwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 55
וּמַשְׁכַּח
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- משכח
- Transliteration
- wmshkch
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 15
רַחֲמִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רחמין
- Transliteration
- rchmyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 65
קֳדָם
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- קדם
- Transliteration
- qdm
- Morphology
- prepositional or nominal form
- Gloss
- before, in front of, east
- Occurrences
- 2023
יְיָ
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- יהוה
- Transliteration
- yy
- Morphology
- divine name substitute in Targumic Aramaic
- Gloss
- the Lord
- Occurrences
- 3908
וְסִפְוָתֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ספותיה
- Transliteration
- wspwtyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 8
דְּגַבְרָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גברא
- Transliteration
- dgbr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 524
שָׁטְיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שטיא
- Transliteration
- shty'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 39
מִלִּין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- לין
- Transliteration
- mlyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 41
דִּנְזִיפוּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נזיפותא
- Transliteration
- dnzypwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 1
וּבְגִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- בגין
- Transliteration
- wbgyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 14
כֵּן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- כן
- Transliteration
- kn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 422
כּוּלֵּי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ולי
- Transliteration
- kwly
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 11
עָלְמָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עלמא
- Transliteration
- 'lm'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 549
מִתְגַּמְרִין׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תגמרין
- Transliteration
- mtgmryn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 5
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Verba oris sapientis gratia, et labia insipientis præcipitabunt eum;
verba
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uerbum
- Transliteration
- verba
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1162
oris
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- os
- Transliteration
- oris
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 657
sapientis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sapiens
- Transliteration
- sapientis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 208
gratia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- gratia
- Transliteration
- gratia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 364
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
labia
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- labium
- Transliteration
- labia
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 109
insipientis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- insipiens
- Transliteration
- insipientis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 53
praecipitabunt
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- praecipito
- Transliteration
- praecipitabunt
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 21
eum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Colossians 4:6
Let your talk be with grace, mixed with salt, so that you may be able to give an answer to everyone.
20 relevance votesLuke 4:22
And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?
9 relevance votesProverbs 22:11
He whose heart is clean is dear to the Lord; for the grace of his lips the king will be his friend.
8 relevance votesProverbs 15:2
Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.
8 relevance votesEphesians 4:29
Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
7 relevance votesProverbs 26:9
Like a thorn which goes up into the hand of a man overcome by drink, so is a wise saying in the mouth of a foolish man.
3 relevance votesLuke 19:22
He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
3 relevance votesProverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
3 relevance votesProverbs 15:23
A man has joy in the answer of his mouth: and a word at the right time, how good it is!
3 relevance votesPsalms 37:30
The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness.
2 relevance votesProverbs 31:26
Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.
2 relevance votesProverbs 10:8
The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.
2 relevance votes