Proverbs 30:26 - The Words of Agur (2024)

New International Version
hyraxes are creatures of little power, yet they make their home in the crags;New Living Translation
Hyraxes—they aren’t powerful, but they make their homes among the rocks.English Standard Version
the rock badgers are a people not mighty, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;Berean Standard Bible
the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;King James Bible
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;New King James Version
The rock badgers are a feeble folk, Yet they make their homes in the crags;New American Standard Bible
The rock hyraxes are not a mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;NASB 1995
The shephanim are not mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;NASB 1977
The badgers are not mighty folk, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;Legacy Standard Bible
The shephanim are not a mighty people, Yet they make their houses in the cliff;Amplified Bible
The shephanim are not a mighty folk, Yet they make their houses in the rocks;Christian Standard Bible
hyraxes are not a mighty people, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;Holman Christian Standard Bible
hyraxes are not a mighty people, yet they make their homes in the cliffs; American Standard Version
The conies are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the rocks;Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the rabbits that are lacking in power and make themselves houses in the rocks,Brenton Septuagint Translation
the rabbits also are a feeble race, who make their houses in the rocks.Contemporary English Version
badgers, who seem to be weak, but live among the rocks; Douay-Rheims Bible
The rabbit, a weak people, which maketh its bed in the rock: English Revised Version
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks;GOD'S WORD® Translation
Rock badgers are not a mighty species, yet they make their home in the rocks.Good News Translation
Rock badgers: they are not strong either, but they make their homes among the rocks. International Standard Version
The rock badgers aren't a strong species either, yet they build their dens in the rocks.JPS Tanakh 1917
The rock-badgers are but a feeble folk, Yet make they their houses in the crags;Literal Standard Version
hyraxes [are] a people not strong, | And they place their house in a rock,Majority Standard Bible
the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;New American Bible
Badgers—a species not mighty, yet they make their home in the crags; NET Bible
rock badgers are creatures with little power, but they make their homes in the crags; New Revised Standard Version
the badgers are a people without power, yet they make their homes in the rocks;New Heart English Bible
The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks.Webster's Bible Translation
The conies are but a feeble people, yet they make their houses in the rocks;World English Bible
The hyraxes are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks. Young's Literal Translation
Conies are a people not strong, And they place in a rock their house,Additional Translations ...

(26) The conies are but a feeble folk, being only about as big as a rabbit, with nails instead of claws, and weak teeth. Its Hebrew name (sh?ph?n) signifies a "hider," from its habit of living in clefts of the rocks; its scientific name is Hyrax Syriacus. The translation "coney," i.e., rabbit, is a mistake. In general appearance it resembles a guinea-pig or marmot.

Verse 26. - The conies are but a feeble folk. The term "coney" (cuniculus) is applied to the rabbit, but this is not the animal here intended; and indeed rabbits are not found in Palestine. The word shaphan designates the Hyrax Syriacus, called by some the rock badger (see Hatrt, 'Animals of the Bible,' pp. 64, etc.). The coney, says Dr. Geikie ('Holy Land and Bible,' 2:90), "abounds in the gorge of the Kedron, and along the foot of the mountains west of the Dead Sea. It is of the size of the rabbit, but belongs to a very different order of animals, being placed by naturalists between the hippopotamus and rhinoceros. Its soft fur is brownish-grey over the back, with long black hairs rising through this lighter coat, and is almost white on the stomach; the tail is very short. The Jews, who were not scientific, deceived by the motion of its jaws in eating, which is exactly like that of ruminant animals, fancied it chewed the cud, though it did not divide the hoof, and so they put its flesh amidst that which was forbidden. It lives in companies, and chooses a ready-made cleft in the rocks for its home, so that, though the conies are but a 'feeble folk,' their refuge in the rocks gives them a security beyond that of stronger creatures. They are, moreover, 'exceeding wise,' so that it is very hard to capture one. Indeed, they are said, on high authority, to have sentries regularly placed on the look out while the rest are feeding; a squeak from the watchman sufficing to send the flock scudding to their holes like rabbits. The coney is found in many parts of Palestine, from Lebanon to the Dead Sea." In the rocks. This fact is noticed in Psalm'civ. 18. The Septuagint calls them χοιρογρύλλιοι here and Psalm 104:18, also in Leviticus 11:6 and Deuteronomy 14:7. This notion of the animal as a kind of little pig is not more accurate than that of St. Jerome, who renders the term by lepusculus. Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

the conies
שְׁ֭פַנִּים (p̄an·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8227: A species of rockrabbit, the hyrax

are not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

a mighty
עָצ֑וּם (‘ā·ṣūm)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 6099: Powerful, numerous

species,
עַ֣ם (‘am)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

yet they make
וַיָּשִׂ֖ימוּ (way·yā·śî·mū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

their homes
בֵּיתָֽם׃ (bê·ṯām)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 1004: A house

in the rocks;
בַסֶּ֣לַע (ḇas·se·la‘)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5553: A craggy rock

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