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Proverbs 8:17


Proverbs 8:16 Proverbs 8:17 (KJV) Proverbs 8:18
By me princes rule, and nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.
Riches and honour [are] with me; [yea], durable riches and righteousness.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

I loveH157 them that loveH157 me; and those that seek me earlyH7836 shall findH4672 me.


Original Hebrew

אֲנִי [אֹהֲבֶיהָ כ] (אֹהֲבַי ק) אֵהָב וּמְשַׁחֲרַי יִמְצָאֻנְנִי׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
אֲ֭נִי
'A.ni H589 HPp1cs I
אהבי/ה
ʼâhab H157 HVqrmpc/Sp3fs
אֵהָ֑ב
'e.Hav H157 HVqi1cs I love
וּ֝/מְשַׁחֲרַ֗/י
u./me.sha.cha.Ra/i H7836 HC/Vprmpc/Sp1cs and/ (those who) earnestly seek/ me
יִמְצָאֻֽ/נְנִי
yim.tza.'U./ni H4672 HVqi3mp/Sp1cs they find/ me
Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)
Strong's References
  • H157 — אָהַב (ʼâhab, aw-hab'): or אָהֵב ; a primitive root; to have affection for (sexually or otherwise); (be-) love(-d, -ly, -r), like, friend.
  • H4672 — מָצָא (mâtsâʼ, maw-tsaw'): a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present; [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
  • H7836 — שָׁחַר (shâchar, shaw-khar'): a primitive root; properly, to dawn, i.e. (figuratively) be (up) early at any task (with the implication of earnestness); by extension, to search for (with painstaking); (do something) betimes, enquire early, rise (seek) betimes, seek diligently) early, in the morning).

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

  • H589 — אֲנִי (ʼănîy, an-ee'): lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who.

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