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Skill for living in the fear of the LORD: the six collections the book names itself, the keystone that frames it, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a…
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- Proverbs, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Proverbs: the Study Guide, a featured study.Skill for living in the fear of the LORD: the six collections the book names itself, the keystone that frames it, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a promise.
Verses
21 results- VerseJob 13:12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
- VerseProverbs 1:1These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,
- VerseEzekiel 16:44Behold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- VerseProverbs 1:6by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
- Verse1 Kings 4:32Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
Words (Strong's)
2 results- WordH4911 מָשַׁל · mâshal (Hebrew)to liken, i.e. (transitively) to use figurative language (an allegory, adage, song or the like). The Hebrew word stands 16 times in the original text.
- WordH176 אוֹ · ʼôw (Hebrew)desire (and so probably in Proverbs 31:4). The Hebrew word stands 321 times in the original text.
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6 results- StudyProverbs: the Study GuideSkill for living in the fear of the LORD: the six collections the book names itself, the keystone that frames it, and the genre key that keeps a proverb from being read as a promise.
- StudyWisdom and the PoetsFive Hebrew voices in verse (Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song) and how their poetry, built on paired lines, meets every season of a life.
- StudyThe Proverbs 31 Woman: Proverbs 31:10-31 · MannaFestA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Fear of the LORDSix books of the Bible say the same sentence (the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom) and the same passages that command trembling promise the friendship of God.
- StudyChrist Our WisdomLady Wisdom speaks in Proverbs 8 (before the deeps, beside God as master workman) and the New Testament puts that exact vocabulary on Christ.
Voices
5 results- VoiceProcopius of GazaProcopius was born about 465 at Gaza, on the coast of Palestine, and died there about 528. He spent his working life as a teacher of rhetoric, and he was the leading figure in…
- VoiceBedeBede was born about 673 on land belonging to the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow, in Northumbria. He was handed over to the monks at the age of seven. He never really…
- VoiceErasmus of RotterdamDesiderius Erasmus was born at Rotterdam, most likely on October 28, 1466 — he was vague about the year, and had reason to be. He was the illegitimate son of a priest and a…
- VoiceA.W. PinkArthur Walkington Pink was born in Nottingham, England, on April 1, 1886, into a corn merchant's family. He was a bright young man who went looking for spiritual reality in the…
- VoicePetrus AlphonsiHe was born Moses Sephardi, a Jew of Huesca in Aragon, in northern Spain, probably around 1076. He was a physician and an astronomer, trained in the Arabic learning that made…
Apocrypha (study resources)
2 results- Study resourceSirach 47:17The countries marvelled at thee for thy songs, and proverbs, and parables, and interpretations.
- Study resourceSirach 8:8Despise not the discourse of the wise, but acquaint thyself with their proverbs: for of them thou shalt learn instruction, and how to serve great men with ease.