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Proverbs 1:4


Proverbs 1:3 Proverbs 1:4 (KJV) Proverbs 1:5
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
A wise [man] will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

To giveH5414 subtiltyH6195 to the simpleH6612, to the young manH5288 knowledgeH1847 and discretionH4209.


Original Hebrew

לָתֵת לִפְתָאיִם עָרְמָה לְנַעַר דַּעַת וּמְזִמָּה׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
לָ/תֵ֣ת
la./Tet H5414 HR/Vqc to/ give
לִ/פְתָאיִ֣ם
li/f.ta.Yim H6612 HR/Ncmpa to/ naive people
עָרְמָ֑ה
'a.re.Mah H6195 HNcfsa prudence
לְ֝/נַ֗עַר
le./Na.'ar H5288 HR/Ncmsa to/ a youth
דַּ֣עַת
Da.'at H1847 HNcfsa knowledge
וּ/מְזִמָּֽה
u./me.zi.Mah H4209 HC/Ncfsa and/ discretion
Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)
Strong's References
  • H1847 — דַּעַת (daʻath, dah'-ath): from יָדַע; knowledge; cunning, (ig-) norantly, know(-ledge), (un-) awares (wittingly).
  • H4209 — מְזִמָּה (mᵉzimmâh, mez-im-maw'): from זָמַם; a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity); (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
  • H5288 — נַעַר (naʻar, nah'-ar): from נָעַר; (concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age); babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
  • H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.
  • H6195 — עׇרְמָה (ʻormâh, or-maw'): feminine of עֹרֶם; trickery; or (in a good sense) discretion; guile, prudence, subtilty, wilily, wisdom.
  • H6612 — פְּתִי (pᵉthîy, peth-ee'): or פֶּתִי; or פְּתָאִי; from פָּתָה; silly (i.e. seducible); foolish, simple(-icity, one).
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