Proverbs 1:2
What meaning of the proverbs 1:2 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 1:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"
What does Proverbs 1:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;"
Verse Proverbs 1:2. _TO KNOW WISDOM_] That is, this is the design of parabolical writing in _general_; and the _particular_ aim of the present work. This and the two following verses contain the inte...
The writer’s purpose is to educate. He is writing what might be called an ethical handbook for the young, though not for the young only. Of all books in the Old Testament, this is the one which we may...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS A detailed analysis, as we have made it in other books, cannot be fully made in this collection of proverbs. Most of them are detached and each has a message by itself. To in...
PROVERBS 1-9. FIRST SECTION. THE PRAISE OF WISDOM. Proverbs 1:1. Title, either of the whole book, or of this particular collection. The word for PROVERB, _mâ shâ l,_ has a wide significance _in Heb....
TO KNOW. For discerning. So in verses: Proverbs 1:3; Proverbs 1:4; Proverbs 1:6. WISDOM. Hebrew. _chokmah._ There are six words rendered "wisdom" in this book. (1) _chokmah,_ rendered "wisdom" excep...
_To know_ The construction in this and the following clauses is elliptical: _The proverbs … to know, to discern, to receive, to give_; i.e. the proverbs of which the purpose is that men may know, disc...
TO KNOW WISDOM—TO PERCEIVE— _To give the knowledge of wisdom—the perception of,_ &c. and so on. The first six verses contain the author's design; wherein he uses several synonymous words to express th...
CHAPTER 1 TEXT Proverbs 1:1-9 1. The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2. To know wisdom and instruction; To discern the words of understanding; 3. To receive instruction in...
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; TO KNOW WISDOM - depending on Proverbs 1:1. The proverbs of Solomon are designed that all may by them know wisdom. AND INST...
1:2 instruction; (i-5) 'Wisdom' here and in ver. 7 is _ chokmah_ . 'Instruction' means also, 'correction,' 'warning,' 'discipline,' Job 36:10 ....
The chapter falls into three principal divisions. 1-6. Title and Introduction explaining the object of the whole book, which is to instruct the inexperienced and add to the educated man's knowledge....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS King Solomon ruled the nation of Israel for 40 years. He brought peace and wealth to the nation. Solomon’s workmen built pa...
TO KNOW. — That is, they are written that one may know. The writer in this and the following verses heaps up synonyms with which to bring out the wide purpose of the instruction he offers. WISDOM (_c...
לָ דַ֣עַת חָכְמָ֣ה וּ מוּסָ֑ר לְ֝ הָבִ֗ין אִמְרֵ֥י בִינָֽה׃...
CHAPTER 2 THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge."- Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: And the knowledge of the Holy One is understa...
“THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE” Proverbs 1:1-19 Notice the perfect balance of each clause, and the duplication of the one thought in the two clauses of each verse. _Wisdom_ as used in this book is mor...
The Book of Proverbs is one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew people. Emotionally and fundamentally, wisdom is the fear of God; intellectually, a knowledge of the manifestations of the divine wisdom;...
To know wisdom (a) and instruction; to perceive the words (b) of understanding; (a) That is, what we ought to know and follow, and what we ought to refuse. (b) Meaning, the word of God in which is t...
_To know. This is the design of these parables. (Calmet) --- They tend to instruct both the unexperienced and the wise, ver. 5. There are three sorts of wisdom: the divine, which is God himself; (chap...
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowle...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
TO KNOW WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION,.... That is, these proverbs were made, and written, and published, to make known or to teach men wisdom and knowledge; not only in things moral, and therefore these pro...
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; Ver. 2. _To know wisdom._] That is, To give others to know; to wise them, as in Daniel 12:3; to give the knowledge of salvation...
_To know wisdom_ Written to help men to know, thoroughly and practically, both human wisdom, to conduct their affairs properly in this life, and especially divine wisdom, showing them their duty to Go...
THE TITLE AND THE INTRODUCTION...
1-6 The lessons here given are plain, and likely to benefit those who feel their own ignorance, and their need to be taught. If young people take heed to their ways, according to Solomon's Proverbs, t...
TO KNOW; written to help men to know thoroughly and practically. WISDOM; both human wisdom, to conduct our affairs in this life, which divers of the following proverbs do; and especially Divine wisdom...
Proverbs 1:2 know H3045 (H8800) wisdom H2451 instruction H4148 perceive H995 (H8687) words H561 understanding H998 Proverbs 4:5-7, Proverbs 7:4, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 16:16,...
INTRODUCTION TO THE PROLOGUE (PROVERBS 1:1). The book commences with an introduction which explains its purpose in some depth. Its aim is to pass on ‘the sayings of Solomon, the son of David, king of...
Proverbs 1:1 It might seem at first as if no precepts of this kind, drawn from the experience of a social state most unlike our own, could be of much service to us. But much that is true of man at an...
CONTENTS: Wisdom's reasoning with the children of men and the certain ruin of those who turn a deaf ear to Wisdom's call. CHARACTERS: God, Solomon, his son, Wisdom, (Christ). CONCLUSION: Of all thin...
Proverbs 1:1. _Proverbs,_ apothegms, parables, sentences, similitudes. The proverbs of a nation are the compressions of wisdom into short maxims, which like the coins of a country worn bare by use, pa...
_The proverbs of Solomon._ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 1. The book does not consist of proverbs entirely. Much of it is the language of pious exhortation and spiritual precept. 2. The book contains many w...
PROVERBS 1:1 Title, Goal, and Motto. After the title (v. Proverbs 1:1), there is an introduction that describes the goal of the whole book (vv. Proverbs 1:2) and the motto that underlies every instruc...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 1:1. PROVERBS. See Introduction. PROVERBS 1:2. INSTRUCTION, properly “chastisement,” signifying moral training, admonition, then good habits, the practical side of wisdom....
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 1:1 PART I. THE TITLE AND SUPERSCRIPTION. The superscription of the Proverbs, which extends from verse 1 to verse 6, furnishes us with an epitome in short and concise language o...
Shall we turn in our Bibles tonight to Proverbs, chapter 1. The first six verses are sort of a preface to the book, as authors many times write a preface to their work. The Proverbs of Solomon the so...
1 Kings 3:9; 2 Timothy 3:15; Deuteronomy 4:5; Deuteronomy 4:6; Proverbs 16:16; Proverbs 17:16; Proverbs 4:5; Proverbs 7:4; Proverbs 8:5...
THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON Proverbs 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Solomon's great choice. It was in Gibeon that the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, "Ask what I shall give the...
To know — Written to help men to know throughly and practically. Both human wisdom to conduct our affairs in this life, and Divine wisdom. Instruction — The instructions delivered either by God, or me...