Proverbs 4:8

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Wisdom [is] the principal thing; [therefore] get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.	Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.	She shall give to thine head an ornament of grace: a crown of glory shall she deliver to thee.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Exalt^H5549 her, and she shall promote^H7311 thee: she shall bring thee to honour^H3513, when thou dost embrace^H2263 her.

Original Hebrew

סַלְסְלֶהָ וּתְרֹומְמֶךָּ תְּכַבֵּדְךָ כִּי תְחַבְּקֶנָּה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
סַלְסְלֶ֥/הָ	sal.se.Le./ha	H5549	HVlv2ms/Sp3fs	esteem/ her
וּֽ/תְרוֹמְמֶ֑/ךָּ	u./te.ro.Me./ka	H7311	HC/Voi3fs/Sp2ms	and/ she will exalt/ you
תְּ֝כַבֵּ֗דְ/ךָ	te.kha.Be.de./kha	H3513	HVpi3fs/Sp2ms	she will honor/ you
כִּ֣י	ki	H3588	HC	if
תְחַבְּקֶֽ/נָּה	te.chab.be.Ke./nah	H2263	HVpi2ms/Sp3fs	you will embrace/ her

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H2263 — חָבַק (châbaq, khaw-bak'): a primitive root; to clasp (the hands or in embrace); embrace, fold.
H3513 — כָּבַד (kâbad, kaw-bad'): or כָּבֵד; a primitive root; to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable; causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses); abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, [idiom] be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, [idiom] more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
H5549 — סָלַל (çâlal, saw-lal'): a primitive root; to mound up (especially a turnpike); figurative, to exalt; reflexively, to oppose (as by a dam); cast up, exalt (self), extol, make plain, raise up.
H7311 — רוּם (rûwm, room): a primitive root; to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively); bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, ([idiom] a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), [phrase] presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H3588 — כִּי (kîy, kee): a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed; and, + (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), + but, certainly, doubtless, + else, even, + except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, + nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, + (al-) though, + till, truly, + until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

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