27The spirit of a man is the lamp of the LORD, searching out his inmost being.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 20:27
The LORD Searches the Heart: Sobriety, Justice, Counsel, Speech, and Honest Measures
The chapter moves from appetite and conflict, to hidden purposes and integrity, to royal justice and human impurity, to work and speech, to surety, fraud, counsel, and gossip, to family honor, inheritance, vengeance, and dishonest scales, and finally to providence, vows, royal judgment, the LORD's searching lamp, and painful correction.
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Verse 27
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Original words
The spiritנִשְׁמַ֣תH5397Noun - feminine singular constructof a manאָדָ֑םH120Noun - masculine singular[is] the lampנֵ֣רH5216Noun - masculine singular constructof the LORDיְ֭הוָהH3068Noun - proper - masculine singularsearching outחֹ֝פֵ֗שׂH2664Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular. . .כָּל־H3605Noun - masculine singular constructhis inmost beingחַדְרֵי־H2315Noun - masculine plural construct. . .בָֽטֶן׃H990Noun - feminine singular
BSB notes
- Or breath or speech