Proverbs 8:1
WISDOM. Hebrew. _chokmah =_ wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
WISDOM. Hebrew. _chokmah =_ wisdom personified. Compare Proverbs 8:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
HIGH PLACES. places of vantage. IN THE PLACES OF THE PATHS. in the places where the paths meet.... [ Continue Reading ]
DOORS. entrances.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew. _'ishim._ App-14. MAN. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SIMPLE. See note on Proverbs 1:4. WISDOM. Hebrew. _'armah._ Not the same word as in Proverbs 8:1. shrewdness. See note on Proverbs 1:2. FOOLS. Hebrew. _k sil._ See note on Proverbs 1:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXCELLENT. Hebrew. _nagid_. a prince, or representative. THINGS. Hebrew. _dabar_. words (see App-73.) Hence. representative truths.... [ Continue Reading ]
WICKEDNESS. lawlessness. Hebrew. _rasha'._ App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _imrah._ FROWARD. twisted, or crafty.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETTER. Note the seventeen occurrences of this rendering of Hebrew. _tob_ in Proverbs: Proverbs 3:14; Proverbs 8:11; Proverbs 8:19; Proverbs 12:9; Proverbs 15:16; Proverbs 15:17; Proverbs 16:32; Proverbs 17:1;... [ Continue Reading ]
I WISDOM DWELL. Wisdom personified. Figure of speech _Prosopopoeia._ App-6. WITTY. sagacious. Anglo-Saxon _witan,_ to know; like Greek. _oida_. to know intuitively: not by effort, which is _ginosko =_ to get to know.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FEAR, &C. See note on Proverbs 1:7. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. HATE. This is far beyond Zophar's mistaken definition of it in Job 28:28. A man may "depart" from evil from _policy,_ while he loves it in his heart. But to "hate" it comes only from Divine wisdom. By nature men love evil ... [ Continue Reading ]
SOUND WISDOM. See note on Proverbs 2:7. UNDERSTANDINGS. discernment. See note on Proverbs 1:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
BY ME KINGS REIGN. See Psalms 75:6; Psalms 75:7; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 2:47; Romans 13:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGES OF THE EARTH. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, Syriac, read "righteous judges"; reading _zedek,_ "righteousness", instead of _'erez,_ "earth". Revised Version follows this.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT LOVE ME. Illustrations: Joseph (Genesis 37:2 :; Genesis 37:13; Genesis 37:16. Pro 39:3, Pro 39:9. Pro 41:38); Samuel (1 Samuel 2:26; 1 Samuel 7:3. compare Jeremiah 15:1); David (1 Samuel 17:37; 1 Samuel 17:45;... [ Continue Reading ]
TREASURES. treasuries. and Syriac render it "created" (_ektise)_. Compare the use of the verb in this book (Proverbs 1:5; Proverbs 4:5; Proverbs 4:7; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 18:15; Proverbs 19:8; Proverbs 20:14;... [ Continue Reading ]
SET UP. founded. Hebrew. _nasak,_ as in Psalms 2:6, "set". FROM EVERLASTINGS. from the outset of the ages. Compare Hebrews 11:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
BROUGHT FORTH. Same root as Job 15:7; Job 39:1.Psalms 29:9; Psalms 51:5.Isaiah 45:10; Isaiah 51:2; Isaiah 66:8. Hebrew. _hul._ Not the same word as in Proverbs 8:30.... [ Continue Reading ]
SETTLED. Compare Psalms 104:8.... [ Continue Reading ]
EARTH. Hebrew. _eretz_. THE HIGHEST PART: or, the first atoms or particles. WORLD. the habitable world. Hebrew. _tebel_ (not _'eretz_ dearth). The Talmud (_Taanith_ vol. 10A) distinguishes _'eretz_ as meaning the land of Israel, from the world as meaning _the outside lands._ Compare Matthew 2:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
COMPASS. a circle, or vault.... [ Continue Reading ]
CLOUDS. skies, or finer clouds. DEEP. abyss.... [ Continue Reading ]
APPOINTED. fixed by statute, or marked out.... [ Continue Reading ]
I WAS BY. I became beside Him. John 1:1. See note on "was", Genesis 1:2. BY. close by. AS ONE BROUGHT UP WITH HIM. as one constantly with Him, or under His constant care. Hebrew. _'amon,_ from root _'aman =_ to be constant or steady, and denoting: (1) The making constant or steady (Exodus 17:12). ... [ Continue Reading ]
THE HABITABLE PART OF HIS EARTH. Hebrew. _tebel 'arez._ See note on "world", Proverbs 8:26. men. Hebrew. _'adam._ App-14. Compare Genesis 2:19; Genesis 3:8; Genesis 3:21. Made in HIS image. Genesis 1:26; Genesis 1:27.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILDREN. sons. BLESSED. happy. See note on Proverbs 3:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
FIN DETH LIFE: i.e. resurrection life, and life eternal. Compare John 3:36; 1 John 5:12. See note on Leviticus 18:5. FAVOUR. as shown in Romans 6:23.... [ Continue Reading ]
SINNETH. Hebrew. _chata'._ App-44. SOUL. Hebrew. _nephesh._ App-13. LOVE DEATH. live and act so as to lose life. Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause).... [ Continue Reading ]