What Does Proverbs 28:24 Mean in the King James?
Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The claim “there is no rebellion” becomes the bond joining the taker to destruction.
THE MEANING
When you take from your father or mother and call it no breach, the denial does not dissolve what happened. The verse names that denial alongside a joining to what destroys.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that calling harm “no transgression” clears it away; the verse treats the denial as part of the joining to destruction.
THE ROOT
חָבֵר
chaver
GROWS FROM
חבר
ḥ-b-r
To join, bind, or connect.
The word rendered “companion” grows from the idea of joining. The verse depicts the one who denies the breach as joined in company with the destroyer.
ALSO GROWS
chavar: To join or connect.
חָבַר
The companion is one joined to another; the word carries a bond, not mere proximity.
chever: Company or association.
חֶבֶר
This branch makes the verse’s “companion” language feel like belonging to a company.
פֶּשַׁע
peshaʿ
GROWS FROM
פשע
p-sh-ʿ
To rebel or break away.
English “transgression” can sound like a technical infraction; פֶּשַׁע (peshaʿ, rebellion or breaking away) carries the force of a rupture. Saying there is no peshaʿ tries to deny the break, while the next clause names the speaker’s destructive alliance.
ALSO GROWS
pashaʿ: To rebel or break away.
פָּשַׁע
The verb shows the active rupture hidden beneath the denial.
peshaʿ: Rebellion or breaking away.
פֶּשַׁע
This noun is the very thing the speaker claims is absent.
THE PATTERN
Excusing a breach does not remove its effects; the excuse can join its speaker to those who do harm.
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.THE THREAD
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.The same Hebrew root פשע (peshaʿ, rebellion or breaking away) appears in “my transgressions.” Proverbs depicts a speaker denying the breach; here the same rupture is named aloud and brought into the open.
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