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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;{HR}I will lie down with those on fire, the sons of men,{HR}Their teeth 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• 30{i}Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain;{HR}A woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.{/i} (Prov. 31:30)
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Ezek. 16:15‑22• 15But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown. {i}and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.{/i}
 16And of thy garments thou didst take and make for thyself high places with divers colours, {i}and didst play the harlot thereupon: the like hath not come to pass, and shall be no more.{/i}
 17Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
 18and tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them,
 19my meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord Jehovah.
 20Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,
 21that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them?
 22{i}And 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.{/i} (Ezek. 16:15‑22)
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Nah. 3:4‑6• 4Because of the multitudes of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
 5Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
 6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and will make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock. (Nah. 3:4‑6)
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1 Peter 3:3‑4• 3whose adornment let it not be the outward one of plaiting the hair, and of wearing gold, or of putting on apparel,
 4but the hidden man of the heart, in the incorruptible of the meek and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God very precious. (1 Peter 3:3‑4)
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2 Peter 2:22• 22[But] there hath happened to them the [saying] of the true proverb, A dog returned to his own vomit, and A sow washed into rolling in mire. (2 Peter 2:22)
is without.
Heb. departed from.
Prov. 7:10• 10And, behold, there met him a woman{HR}[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;{HR}Senseless, 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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As a gold ring in a swine’s snout{HR}[Is] a woman fair and indiscreet.