Proverbs 27:22
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
Though you grind a fool like grain with mortar and a pestle, yet his folly will not depart from him.

Young's Literal Translation
If thou dost beat the foolish in a mortar, Among washed things—with a pestle, His folly turneth not aside from off him.

King James Bible
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, [yet] will not his foolishness depart from him.

Hebrew
Though
אִ֥ם (’im)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you grind
תִּכְתּֽוֹשׁ־ (tiḵ·tō·wōš-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3806: To pound, pound fine, bray

a fool
הָאֱוִ֨יל ׀ (hā·’ĕ·wîl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 191: Foolish

in a mortar
בַּֽמַּכְתֵּ֡שׁ (bam·maḵ·têš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4388: A mortar, a socket

with a pestle
בַּֽעֱלִ֑י (ba·‘ĕ·lî)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5940: A pestle

along with
בְּת֣וֹךְ (bə·ṯō·wḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8432: A bisection, the centre

grain,
הָ֭רִיפוֹת (hā·rî·p̄ō·wṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 7383: Perhaps grain

[yet] his folly
אִוַּלְתּֽוֹ׃ (’iw·wal·tōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 200: Silliness

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

depart
תָס֥וּר (ṯā·sūr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

from him.
מֵ֝עָלָ֗יו (mê·‘ā·lāw)
Preposition-m | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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