Proverbs 1:4
What meaning of the proverbs 1:4 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.b"
What does Proverbs 1:4 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.b"
Verse Proverbs 1:4. _TO GIVE SUBTILTY TO THE SIMPLE_] The word _simple_, from _simplex_, compounded of _sine_, without, and _plica_, a fold, properly signifies _plain_ and _honest_, one that has no _...
This verse points out the two classes for which the book will be useful: (1) the “simple,” literally the “open,” the open-hearted, the minds ready to receive impressions for good or evil Proverbs 1:2...
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....
SUBTILTY. prudence. Same root as Genesis 3:1. Compare Matthew 10:16; 1 Samuel 23:22. Not the same word as Genesis 27:35. SIMPLE. artless, guileless, unsuspecting. Compare verses: Proverbs 1:22; Prover...
The Introduction. Chap. Proverbs 1:2-7 The Introduction consists of a statement of the object of the Book (Proverbs 1:2), which is primarily to instruct the young in Wisdom (Proverbs 1:4), but at the...
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 give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. TO GIVE SUBTILTY TO THE SIMPLE, TO THE YOUNG MAN KNOWLEDGE AND DISCRETION. "Subtilty," shrewdness, not in the sense of wor...
1:4 simple, (l-6) 'Simple,' in this book, means one lacking in the powers of the soul and mind, and hence easily enticed and misled. discretion. (m-13) Or 'reflection,' 'sagacity.'...
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...
SUBTILTY (‘_Ormah_). — Used in a bad sense (Exodus 21:14) for “guile.” For the meaning here, comp. Matthew 10:16 : “Be ye wise as serpents;” comp. also the reproof of Luke 16:8, that “the children of...
לָ תֵ֣ת לִ פְתָאיִ֣ם עָרְמָ֑ה לְ֝ נַ֗עַר דַּ֣עַת וּ מְזִמָּֽה׃...
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 give subtilty to the (e) simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. (e) To such as have no discretion to rule themselves....
_Subtilty. Discretion to the innocent. (Calmet)_...
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 GIVE SUBTLETY TO THE SIMPLE,.... Men of mean abilities, weak capacities, shallow understandings, incautious, credulous, and easily imposed upon: these, by attending to what is herein contained, may...
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. Ver. 4. _To give subtilty._] Serpentine subtilty, Gen 3:1 sacred sagacity, a sharp wit, a deep reach, a Spirit that "searche...
_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...
DISCRETION: Or, advisement...
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...
SUBTILTY; or rather, PRUDENCE, as this word is used, PROVERBS 3:21, PROVERBS 5:2 8:5,12, which elsewhere is taken in an evil sense for _craft_ or _subtilty_. THE SIMPLE; such as want wisdom, and are e...
Proverbs 1:4 give H5414 (H8800) prudence H6195 simple H6612 man H5288 knowledge H1847 discretion H4209 subtlety - Proverbs 1:22-23, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 9:4-6; Psalms 19:7, Psalms 119:130;...
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...
2 Timothy 2:22; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Ecclesiastes 11:9; Ecclesiastes 12:1; Isaiah 35:8; Proverbs 7:7; Proverbs 8:17; Proverbs 8:32; Proverbs 1:22;...
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...
Simple — Such as want wisdom. Young man — Who wants both experience and self — government....