23 The pride of a man shall bring him lowe: but the humble in spirit shall enioy glory.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 29:23. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
גַּאֲוַ֣ת אָ֭דָם תַּשְׁפִּילֶ֑נּוּ וּשְׁפַל־ר֝֗וּחַ יִתְמֹ֥ךְ כָּבֽוֹד׃
גַּאֲוַ֣ת
אָ֭דָם
תַּשְׁפִּילֶ֑נּוּ
וּשְׁפַל
ר֝֗וּחַ
יִתְמֹ֥ךְ
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.
Ὕβρις ἄνδρα ταπεινοῖ, τοὺς δὲ ταπεινόφρονας ἐρείδει δόξῃ Κύριος.
Ὕβρις
- 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
- Ὕβρις
- Transliteration
- ybris
- Morphology
- proper noun, likely indeclinable or context-dependent inflected form
- Gloss
- Ὕβρις
- Part of Speech
- proper noun
- Definition
- Generated proper-name alignment. Exact identity should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 14
ἄνδρα
- 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
- ἀνήρ
- Transliteration
- andra
- Morphology
- noun, masculine accusative singular
- Gloss
- man, husband
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Man, male, husband.
- Occurrences
- 1573
ταπεινοῖ
- 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
- ταπεινοῖ
- Transliteration
- tapeinoi
- Morphology
- nominative plural masculine 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
- 5
τοὺς
- 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
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
δὲ
- 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
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ταπεινόφρονας
- 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
- ταπεινόφρονας
- Transliteration
- tapeinophronas
- Morphology
- accusative plural feminine or genitive singular feminine 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
- 1
ἐρείδει
- 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
- ἐρείδει
- Transliteration
- ereidei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form 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
- 2
δόξῃ
- 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
- δόξα
- Transliteration
- doxa
- Morphology
- noun, feminine nominative singular
- Gloss
- glory, honor
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Glory, honor, reputation, or splendor.
- Occurrences
- 402
Κύριος
- 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
- κύριος
- Transliteration
- kyrios
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- Lord, master
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Lord, master, owner, or title for God.
- Occurrences
- 7934
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.
ܪܡܘܬܗ ܕܒܪ ܐܢܫܐ ܬܡܟܟܝܘܗܝ ܘܡܟܝܟܘܬܗ ܬܣܓܐ ܠܗ ܐܝܩܪܐ
ܪܡܘܬܗ
- 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
- ܪܡܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- rmwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 1
ܕܒܪ
- 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
- ܕܒܪ
- Transliteration
- dbr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 39
ܐܢܫܐ
- 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
- ܐܢܫܐ
- Transliteration
- 'nsh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 290
ܬܡܟܟܝܘܗܝ
- 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
- ܬܡܟܟܝܘܗܝ
- Transliteration
- tmkkywhy
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 2
ܘܡܟܝܟܘܬܗ
- 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
- ܘܡܟܝܟܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- wmkykwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1
ܬܣܓܐ
- 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
- ܬܣܓܐ
- Transliteration
- tsg'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 8
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
ܐܝܩܪܐ
- 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
- ܐܝܩܪܐ
- Transliteration
- 'yqr'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 43
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.
רָמוּתָא דְבַר נָשָׁא תַּשְׁפְּלִנֵיהּ וּמַן דְמַכִּיכָא רוּחֵיהּ נִפְלֵג יְקָרָא׃
רָמוּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רמותא
- Transliteration
- rmwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 2
דְבַר
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- דבר
- Transliteration
- dbr
- Morphology
- verbal root דבר
- Gloss
- led, took, brought
- Occurrences
- 132
נָשָׁא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נשא
- Transliteration
- nsh'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 118
תַּשְׁפְּלִנֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תשפלניה
- Transliteration
- tshplnyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 1
וּמַן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ומן
- Transliteration
- wmn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 310
דְמַכִּיכָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מכיכא
- Transliteration
- dmkyk'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 1
רוּחֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- רוחיה
- Transliteration
- rwchyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 21
נִפְלֵג
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נפלג
- Transliteration
- nplg
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 2
יְקָרָא׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יקרא
- Transliteration
- yqr'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 111
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Superbum sequitur humilitas, et humilem spiritu suscipiet gloria.
superbum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- superbus
- Transliteration
- superbum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 63
sequitur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sequor
- Transliteration
- sequitur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 281
humilitas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- humilitas
- Transliteration
- humilitas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 35
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
humilem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- humilis
- Transliteration
- humilem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 66
spiritu
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- spiritus
- Transliteration
- spiritu
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 709
suscipiet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suscipio
- Transliteration
- suscipiet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 184
gloria
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- gloria
- Transliteration
- gloria
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 475
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.
Matthew 23:12
For whosoeuer will exalt himselfe, shall be brought lowe: and whosoeuer will humble himselfe, shalbe exalted.
201 relevance votesLuke 14:11
For whosoeuer exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shall be exalted.
158 relevance votesProverbs 11:2
When pride commeth, then commeth shame: but with the lowly is wisdome.
140 relevance votesIsaiah 66:2
For all these things hath mine hand made, and all these things haue bene, sayth the Lord: and to him will I looke, euen to him, that is poore, and of a contrite spirite and trembleth at my wordes.
136 relevance votes1 Peter 5:5
Likewise ye yonger, submit your selues vnto the elders, and submit your selues euery man, one to another: decke your selues inwardly in lowlinesse of minde: for God resisteth the proude, and giueth grace to the humble.
109 relevance votesProverbs 15:33
The feare of the Lord is the instruction of wisdome: and before honour, goeth humilitie.
103 relevance votesProverbs 16:18
Pride goeth before destruction, and an high minde before the fall.
94 relevance votesLuke 18:14
I tell you, this man departed to his house iustified, rather then the other: for euery man that exalteth himselfe, shall be brought lowe, and he that humbleth himselfe, shalbe exalted.
86 relevance votesProverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of a man is hautie, and before glory goeth lowlines.
77 relevance votesMatthew 18:4
Whosoeuer therefore shall humble himselfe as this litle childe, the same is the greatest in the kingdome of heauen.
66 relevance votesIsaiah 57:15
For thus sayth he that is hie and excellent, he that inhabiteth the eternitie, whose Name is the Holy one, I dwell in the high and holy place: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirite to reuiue the spirite of the humble, and to giue life to them that are of a contrite heart.
64 relevance votesDeuteronomy 8:16
Who fed thee in the wildernesse with MAN, which thy fathers knewe not) to humble thee, and and to proue thee, that he might doe thee good at thy latter ende.
58 relevance votes