Passage Research
Proverbs 30 — Sermon Preparation
The words of Agur son of Jakeh, opening with humble confession of ignorance, praying for neither poverty nor riches, and offering vivid numerical sayings on the unsatisfied and the incomprehensible. Below is a research summary for Proverbs 30, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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Proverbs 30 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מִיץ | mîyts | H4330 | 3 | pressure |
| אַרְבַּע | ʼarbaʻ | H702 | 5 | four |
| שָׂבַע | sâbaʻ | H7646 | 4 | sate, fill |
| דֶּרֶךְ | derek | H1870 | 5 | road, trodden |
| דּוֹר | dôwr | H1755 | 4 | revolution, age |
| שָׁלוֹשׁ | shâlôwsh | H7969 | 4 | three, third |
| אִיתִיאֵל | ʼÎythîyʼêl | H384 | 2 | Ithiel |
How preachers through history handled this text
11 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 30, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Agur speaks of himself as wanting a righteousness, and having done very foolishly. And it becomes us all to have low thoughts of ourselves. He speaks of himself as wanting revelation to guide him in the ways of truth and wisdom. The more enlightened people are, the more they lament their ignorance; the more they pray for clearer, still clearer discoveries of God, and his rich grace in Christ Jesus. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 30:1–6 (Public Domain)
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