Proverbs 15:17
What meaning of the proverbs 15:17 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 15:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
What does Proverbs 15:17 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith."
Verse Proverbs 15:17. _BETTER_ IS _A DINNER OF HERBS_] Great numbers of _indigent_ _Hindoos_ subsist wholly on _herbs_, fried in oil, and mixed with their rice....
A DINNER OF HERBS - The meals of the poor and the abstemious. The “stalled ox,” like the “fatted calf” of Luke 15:23, would indicate a stately magnificence....
CHAPTER 15 THE BETTER THINGS One can read through the proverbs recorded in this chapter and ask the question, What are the better things? A soft answer which turneth away wrath is better than grievou...
PROVERBS 15. This chapter makes no new departure. Proverbs concerning the moral government of the world again occupy the chief place. One (Proverbs 15:11) is noteworthy as showing an extended concepti...
BETTER IS A DINNER OF HERBS— They eat very little meat in the east in comparison with what we do: bread, _dibbs, leban,_ butter, rice, and a very little mutton, make the chief of their food in the win...
TEXT Proverbs 15:12-22 12. A scoffer loveth not to be reproved; He will not go unto the wise. 13. A glad heart maketh a cheerful countenance; But by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. 14. T...
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. BETTER (IS) A DINNER (HEBREW, 'ªruchat (H737 ) - A TRAVELER'S DINNER; FOOD FOR A JOURNEY) OF HERBS WHERE LOVE IS,...
1. GRIEVOUS] i.e. annoying. 'If one pour in hot water let the other pour in cold.'...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 15 V1 A quiet answer reduces anger. But an impatient word increases anger. V2 A wise man’s words are full of knowledge. A fool’s words are p...
טֹ֤וב אֲרֻחַ֣ת יָ֭רָק וְ אַהֲבָה ־שָׁ֑ם מִ שֹּׁ֥ור אָ֝ב֗וּס וְ שִׂנְאָה ־בֹֽו׃...
CHAPTER 16 A PASSIONATE DISPOSITION "A soft answer turneth away wrath: but a grievous word stirreth up anger." In the LXX there is another clause inserted at the beginning.- Proverbs 15:1 "A meek t...
KIND WORDS AND GLAD HEARTS Proverbs 15:1-17 _A soft answer; the tongue of the wise; a wholesome tongue; the lips of the wise; the prayer of the upright_ -these keywords touch one of the greatest dep...
Verse Proverbs 15:11. This is a simple method of drawing attention to God's perfect knowledge of all the deepest and hidden things. If that which is most full of mystery to us is perfectly known to Hi...
_Calf. Or feast after sacrifice, 1 Kings xvii. 19., and Luke xv. 23._...
The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feas...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be follow...
BETTER [IS] A DINNER OF HERBS, WHERE LOVE IS,.... What Plautus i calls "asperam et terrestrem caenam", "a harsh and earthly supper", made of what grows out of the earth; which is got without much cost...
Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. Ver. 17. _Better is a dinner of herbs where love is._] _Mensa consecrata est amicitiae,_ saith one. The table is d...
_Better is a little with the fear of the Lord_ Which gives a man tranquillity and comfort in what he hath; _than great treasure and trouble therewith_ Tumultuous lusts and passions, vexatious cares an...
V. 17. BETTER IS A DINNER OF HERBS, a portion of the very simplest food, WHERE LOVE IS, where a person is in the midst of his loved ones, THAN A STALLED OX, one fattened by hand-feeding, AND HATRED TH...
LOVE; true friendship and kindness between those that eat together....
Proverbs 15:17 Better H2896 dinner H737 herbs H3419 love H160 fatted H75 (H8803) calf H7794 hatred H8135 Proverbs 17:1, Proverbs 21:19; Psalms 133:1-3; Php_2:1; 1 John 4:16...
THE MAN OF UNDERSTANDING OVERCOMES ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND ENJOYS A LIFE OF PLEASANTNESS WHILST THE FOOL CONTINUALLY EXPERIENCES TROUBLE (PROVERBS 15:14). This subsection is in an inclusio concernin...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The course of the wicked man is an abomination to God, neither is there any offering he can make to God that can be accepte...
Proverbs 15:1. _A soft answer turneth away wrath._ It bows to the tempest, it names a mitigating circumstance, it gives a favourable turn to misconstruction, it proposes a better way. My father, said...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 15:1 This is a series of proverbs dealing primarily with speech, submission to instruction, and God’s providence. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); fo...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 15:17. DINNER OF HERBS, literally “a traveller’s meal.” PROVERBS 15:18. STIRRETH UP, lit. “mixes,” implying the reciprocal idea of giving and taking offence (Fausset). _MA...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 15:1 A SOFT ANSWER TURNETH AWAY WRATH. Two things are here to be observed: an answer should be given—the injured person should not wrap himself in sullen silence; and that answer...
Fifteen. I love this first one here. A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger (Proverbs 15:1). How oftentimes a person comes just raging and a soft answer turns away wrath. I...
1 John 4:16; Philippians 2:1; Proverbs 17:1; Proverbs 21:19; Psalms 133:1...