Proverbs 3:8
This will bring healing to your body and refreshment to your bones.
BSB
ASV
It will be health to thy navel, And marrow to thy bones.
KJV
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
It shall be health to thy navel,.... That part of the body which is the knot of the intestines; and may be put for the bowels and inward parts, which being sound, the body is in health; and these may be put for the whole body: and so the Septuagint version renders it, "to thy body"; and this may be put for the whole person.
It shall be health to thy navel - We need not puzzle ourselves to find out what we may suppose to be a more delicate meaning for the original word שר shor than navel; for I am satisfied a more proper cannot be found. It is well known that it is by the umbilical cord that the fetus receives its nourishment all the time it is in the womb of the mother.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
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.
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Psalms 147:3He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
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Nevertheless, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal its people and reveal to them the abundance of peace and truth.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted; He saves the contrite in spirit.
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight…
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…
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Proverbs 16:24Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
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Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Eat honey, my son, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
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Proverbs 4:22For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
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Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
