Verse (Click for Chapter) 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 ... Audio Bible Context The Words of Agur…25The ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer; 26the rock badgers are creatures of little power, yet they make their homes in the rocks; 27the locusts have no king, yet they all advance in formation;… Cross References Leviticus 11:5 The rock badger, though it chews the cud, does not have a divided hoof; it is unclean for you. Psalm 104:18 The high mountains are for the wild goats, the cliffs a refuge for the rock badgers. Treasury of Scripture The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses in the rocks; Leviticus 11:5 And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you. Psalm 104:18 The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats; and the rocks for the conies. Jump to Previous Badgers Cliff Coneys Conies Crags Creatures Feeble Folk Home Homes House Houses Little Mighty Power Rock Rock-Badgers Rocks Shephanim StrongJump to Next Badgers Cliff Coneys Conies Crags Creatures Feeble Folk Home Homes House Houses Little Mighty Power Rock Rock-Badgers Rocks Shephanim StrongProverbs 30 1. Agur's confession of his faith7. The two points of his prayer 10. The meanest are not to be wronged 11. Four wicked generations 15. Four things insatiable 24. four things exceeding wise 29. Four things stately 32. Wrath is to be prevented (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 coniesשְׁ֭פַנִּים (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 Links Proverbs 30:26 NIVProverbs 30:26 NLT Proverbs 30:26 ESV Proverbs 30:26 NASB Proverbs 30:26 KJV Proverbs 30:26 BibleApps.com Proverbs 30:26 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 30:26 Chinese Bible Proverbs 30:26 French Bible Proverbs 30:26 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk (Prov. 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