27 The 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 spirit נִשְׁמַ֣ת H5397 Noun - feminine singular construct of a man אָדָ֑ם H120 Noun - masculine singular [is] the lamp נֵ֣ר H5216 Noun - masculine singular construct of the LORD יְ֭הוָה H3068 Noun - proper - masculine singular searching out חֹ֝פֵ֗שׂ H2664 Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular . . . כָּל־ H3605 Noun - masculine singular construct his inmost being חַדְרֵי־ H2315 Noun - masculine plural construct . . . בָֽטֶן׃ H990 Noun - feminine singular
BSB notes
- Or breath or speech