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Proverbs 11

Prov. 11:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As a jewel
nexem (Hebrew #5141)
a nose-ring
KJV usage: earring, jewel.
Pronounce: neh'-zem
Origin: from an unused root of uncertain meaning
of gold
zahab (Hebrew #2091)
gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky
KJV usage: gold(-en), fair weather.
Pronounce: zaw-hawb'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to shimmer
in a swine’s
chaziyr (Hebrew #2386)
a hog (perhaps as penned)
KJV usage: boar, swine.
Pronounce: khaz-eer'
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to enclose
snout
'aph (Hebrew #639)
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
KJV usage: anger(-gry), + before, countenance, face, + forebearing, forehead, + (long-)suffering, nose, nostril, snout, X worthy, wrath.
Pronounce: af
Origin: from 599
, so is a fair
yapheh (Hebrew #3303)
beautiful (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: + beautiful, beauty, comely, fair(-est, one), + goodly, pleasant, well.
Pronounce: yaw-feh'
Origin: from 3302
woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
which θis without
cuwr (Hebrew #5493)
a primitive root; to turn off (literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be(-head), bring, call back, decline, depart, eschew, get (you), go (aside), X grievous, lay away (by), leave undone, be past, pluck away, put (away, down), rebel, remove (to and fro), revolt, X be sour, take (away, off), turn (aside, away, in), withdraw, be without.
Pronounce: soor
Origin: or suwr (Hosea 9:12) {soor}
discretion
ta`am (Hebrew #2940)
properly, a taste, i.e. (figuratively) perception; by implication, intelligence; transitively, a mandate
KJV usage: advice, behaviour, decree, discretion, judgment, reason, taste, understanding.
Pronounce: tah'-am
Origin: from 2938
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departeth from.
Psa. 57:4• 4My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. (Psa. 57:4)
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Gold,
Jewels,
Nose Jewels,
Swine,
Woman

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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a jewel.
Prov. 31:30• 30Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised. (Prov. 31:30)
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Ezek. 16:15‑22• 15But thou didst confide in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.
 16And of thy garments thou didst take, and madest for thyself high places decked with divers colours, and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.
 17And thou didst take thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of males, and didst commit fornication with them.
 18And thou tookest thine embroidered garments, and coveredst them; and thou didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.
 19And my bread which I had given thee, the fine flour and the oil and the honey wherewith I fed thee, thou didst even set it before them for a sweet savour: thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 20And thou didst take thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hadst borne unto me, and these didst thou sacrifice unto them, to be devoured. Were thy whoredoms a small matter,
 21that thou didst slay my children and give them up in passing them over to them?
 22And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, when thou wast weltering in thy blood. (Ezek. 16:15‑22)
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Nah. 3:4‑6• 4--Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,
 5behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock. (Nah. 3:4‑6)
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1 Peter 3:3‑4• 3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel;
 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which in the sight of God is of great price. (1 Peter 3:3‑4)
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2 Peter 2:22• 22But that word of the true proverb has happened to them: The dog has turned back to his own vomit; and, The washed sow to her rolling in mud. (2 Peter 2:22)
is without.
Heb. departed from.
Prov. 7:10• 10And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart. (Prov. 7:10)
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Prov. 9:13• 13The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing. (Prov. 9:13)
• See Jezebel’s melancholy history. (“Proverbs Eleven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A fair woman who is without discretion, is as a gold ring in a swine’s snout.