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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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It is an honor
kabowd (Hebrew #3519)
from 3513; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
KJV usage: glorious(-ly), glory, honour(-able).
Pronounce: kaw-bode'
Origin: rarely kabod {kaw-bode'}
u for a man
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
to cease
shebeth (Hebrew #7674)
rest, interruption, cessation
KJV usage: cease, sit still, loss of time.
Pronounce: sheh'-beth
Origin: from 7673
from strife
riyb (Hebrew #7379)
from 7378; a contest (personal or legal)
KJV usage: + adversary, cause, chiding, contend(-tion), controversy, multitude (from the margin), pleading, strife, strive(-ing), suit.
Pronounce: reeb
Origin: or rib {reeb}
: but every fool
'eviyl (Hebrew #191)
(figuratively) silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish) (man).
Pronounce: ev-eel'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to be perverse)
will be meddling
gala` (Hebrew #1566)
to be obstinate
KJV usage: (inter-)meddle (with).
Pronounce: gaw-lah'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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but.
 How strange the pride that makes a man dread to own he has been wrong, or unwilling to back down graciously for the sake of peace, even though he may feel he is in the right-providing no divine principle is at stake. (Proverbs Twenty by H.A. Ironside)
 A fool will persist in contention and meddle with matters in which he should have no part. Even so devoted a man as Josiah failed for lack of having learned this lesson (2 Chron. 35:20-24). (Proverbs Twenty by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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It is an honour for a man to ceasek from strife; but every fool rusheth into it.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "keep away."