Proverbs 16:24
What meaning of the proverbs 16:24 in the Bible?
What does Proverbs 16:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
What does Proverbs 16:24 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
Verse Proverbs 16:24. _PLEASANT WORDS_ ARE AS _A HONEY-COMB_] The honey of which is _sweeter_ than that which has been expressed from it, and has a much _finer flavour_ before it has come in contact w...
Honey took its place not only among the luxuries, but among the medicines of the Israelites. This two-fold use made it all the more suitable to be an emblem both of the true Wisdom which is also true...
CHAPTER 16 IN THE LIGHT OF THE LORD The name Jehovah (LORD) appears eleven times in this chapter of Proverbs. The Lord has the final word, for to man belong the preparations (or plans) of the heart;...
PROVERBS 16. The special feature is a group of aphorisms (Proverbs 16:10) relating to kings. The sentiments seem rather to reflect the picture of the ideal king than to indicate any particular period....
WORDS. sayings. Hebrew. _'imrah._ App-73. HEALTH. healing. Compare Proverbs 6:8. BONES. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for whole body....
_health_ i.e. healthy or wholesome. There is no necessary reference to any medicinal properties in honey. Comp. Proverbs 4:22; Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 13:17; and Jonathan's experience, when he was ex...
TEXT Proverbs 16:23-33 23. The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips. 24. Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25....
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. PLEASANT WORDS (ARE AS) AN HONEYCOMB, SWEET TO THE SOUL, AND HEALTH TO THE BONES. "Pleasant words" are "words of the...
1-9. God's control of human life....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 16 The subject of the book now begins to change. In earlier Chapter s, the main subject is the difference between wise actions and evil action...
PLEASANT WORDS. — Comp. Proverbs 15:26. HEALTH TO THE BONES. — Comp. 1 Samuel 14:27....
צוּף ־דְּ֭בַשׁ אִמְרֵי ־נֹ֑עַם מָתֹ֥וק לַ֝ † נֶּפֶשׁ וּ מַרְפֵּ֥א לָ † עָֽצֶם׃...
CHAPTER 17 A JUST BALANCE "A just balance and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are His work."- Proverbs 16:11 "A false balance is an abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is H...
Verse Proverbs 16:1. A somewhat obscure proverb which recognizes that man has to exercise his own reason in making his plans, but that he is dependent on the Lord for the answer of the tongue. Dr. Per...
Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right. A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps. A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth trans...
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...
PLEASANT WORDS [ARE AS] AN HONEYCOMB,.... Jarchi interprets it of the words of the law; but it may be much better understood of the doctrines of the Gospel; such as the doctrines of God's everlasting...
Pleasant words [are as] an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. Ver. 24. _Pleasant words are as a honeycomb._] Dainty and delicious, such as "the preacher set himself to search out...
_Understanding is a well-spring of life_ A clear understanding and right judgment of things, like an inexhaustible spring, gives perpetual comfort and satisfaction to him who has it, and makes him ver...
V. 24. PLEASANT WORDS ARE AS AN HONEYCOMB, SWEET TO THE SOUL AND HEALTH TO THE BONES; for the spirit of friendliness inspired by love is evident in them, to strengthen the hearer....
PLEASANT WORDS; the discourses of the wise last mentioned, PROVERBS 16:23, which yield both profit and delight; their wholesome counsels and refreshing comforts. TO THE BONES; to the body, synecdochic...
Proverbs 16:24 Pleasant H5278 words H561 honeycomb H6688 H1706 Sweetness H4966 soul H5315 health H4832 bones H6106 Pleasant - Proverbs 12:18, Proverbs 15:23, Proverbs 15:26, Proverbs 23:16,...
THE WISE PASS ON THEIR WISDOM PERSUASIVELY BUT FOOLS HAVE NOTHING TO PASS ON BUT THEIR FOLLY (PROVERBS 16:22). In this subsection the reference in Proverbs 16:21 to the idea of possessing and sweetly...
CONTENTS: Proverbs contrasting good and evil. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The safest way in which to travel is the way of the upright, a way which God makes plain to those who desire to walk in it....
Proverbs 16:1. _The preparations of the heart in man._ As the field must be plowed, and the soil prepared for the seeds, so the heart of man must be prepared for grace. Afflictions in Egypt disposed t...
_The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips._ IDEAL ELOQUENCE These two verses lead us to infer several things concerning true eloquence. I. It is the utterance of th...
PLEASANT WORDS Pleasant words are as an honeycomb. Proverbs 16:24. If King Solomon had lived in our day perhaps he would have written, “Pleasant words are like sugar, sweet and wholesome,” for that...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 16:10 The remaining sections of ch. Proverbs 16:1 illustrate the benefits of wisdom for the well-being of the heart (vv. Proverbs 16:16, Proverbs 16:20, Proverbs 16:25). ⇐ ⇔...
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 16:22. INSTRUCTION, rather “_discipline_,” “_correction_.” _MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 16:22_ AN UNFAILING SPRING I. MORAL INTELLIGENCE IS ITS OWN REWARD. A healthy state...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 16:1 These are specially religions maxims, and they all contain the name Jehovah. PROVERBS 16:1 The Authorized Version makes one sentence of this verse without any contrast or a...
Shall we turn now to Proverbs 16:1-33, the sixteenth chapter and begin our study this evening. The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD (Proverbs 16:1). Go...
Deuteronomy 32:2; Jeremiah 15:16; John 20:19; Proverbs 12:18; Proverbs 15:23; Proverbs 15:26; Proverbs 23:16; Proverbs 24:13; Proverbs 24:14;...