Proverbs 22:17 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

8 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הַ֥ט	hat	incline	H5186 →
אָזְנְךָ֗	'a.ze.ne.Kha	ear your	H241 →
וּ֭שְׁמַע	U.she.ma'	and hear	H8085 →
דִּבְרֵ֣י	div.Rei	[the] words of	H1697 →
חֲכָמִ֑ים	cha.kha.Mim	wise [people]	H2450 →
וְ֝לִבְּךָ֗	ve.li.be.kha	and heart your	H3820 →
תָּשִׁ֥ית	ta.Shit	you will set	H7896 →
לְדַעְתִּֽי׃	le.da'.Ti	to knowledge my	H1847 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 90:12
So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.
leads to
- Ephesians 5:16–17
  redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Psalms 39:4
  “Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- John 9:4
  While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
- Deuteronomy 32:29
  If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
- Proverbs 4:7
  Wisdom is supreme; so acquire wisdom. And whatever you may acquire, gain understanding.
Through
Proverbs 3:1
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;
leads to
- John 14:21–24
  Whoever has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him.”
- Proverbs 4:5
  Get wisdom, get understanding; do not forget my words or turn from them.
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9
  These words I am commanding you today are to be upon your hearts.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Proverbs 5:1My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,Psalms 90:12So teach us to number our days, that we may present a heart of wisdom.Proverbs 23:12Apply your heart to instruction and your ears to words of knowledge.Ecclesiastes 12:11The words of the wise are like goads, and the anthologies of the masters are like firmly embedded nails driven by a single Shepherd.Psalms 49:3My mouth will impart wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will bring understanding.Proverbs 2:2–5if you incline your ear to wisdom and direct your heart to understanding,Proverbs 3:1My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments;Ecclesiastes 7:25I directed my mind to understand, to explore, to search out wisdom and explanations, and to understand the stupidity of wickedness and the folly of madness.Proverbs 4:1Listen, my sons, to a father’s instruction; pay attention and gain understanding.Matthew 17:5While Peter was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to Him!”Proverbs 1:3and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.Ecclesiastes 8:9All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.Ecclesiastes 8:16When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the task that one performs on the earth—though his eyes do not see sleep in the day or even in the night—Isaiah 55:3Incline your ear and come to Me; listen, so that your soul may live. I will make with you an everlasting covenant—My loving devotion promised to David.Proverbs 8:33–34Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it.Proverbs 5:1–2My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.Psalms 31:2Incline Your ear to me; come quickly to my rescue. Be my rock of refuge, the stronghold of my deliverance.

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