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Proverbs 12

Prov. 12:25 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Heaviness
d'agah (Hebrew #1674)
anxiety
KJV usage: care(-fulness), fear, heaviness, sorrow.
Pronounce: deh-aw-gaw'
Origin: from 1672
in the heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
of 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)
maketh it stoop
shachah (Hebrew #7812)
to depress, i.e. prostrate (especially reflexive, in homage to royalty or God)
KJV usage: bow (self) down, crouch, fall down (flat), humbly beseech, do (make) obeisance, do reverence, make to stoop, worship.
Pronounce: shaw-khaw'
Origin: a primitive root
: butv a good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
word
dabar (Hebrew #1697)
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
KJV usage: act, advice, affair, answer, X any such (thing), because of, book, business, care, case, cause, certain rate, + chronicles, commandment, X commune(-ication), + concern(-ing), + confer, counsel, + dearth, decree, deed, X disease, due, duty, effect, + eloquent, errand, (evil favoured-)ness, + glory, + harm, hurt, + iniquity, + judgment, language, + lying, manner, matter, message, (no) thing, oracle, X ought, X parts, + pertaining, + please, portion, + power, promise, provision, purpose, question, rate, reason, report, request, X (as hast) said, sake, saying, sentence, + sign, + so, some (uncleanness), somewhat to say, + song, speech, X spoken, talk, task, + that, X there done, thing (concerning), thought, + thus, tidings, what(-soever), + wherewith, which, word, work.
Pronounce: daw-baw'
Origin: from 1696
maketh it glad
samach (Hebrew #8055)
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
KJV usage: cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Pronounce: saw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
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Prov. 15:23• 23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! (Prov. 15:23)

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Heaviness.
Prov. 14:10• 10The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. (Prov. 14:10)
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Prov. 15:13,15,23• 13A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
 15All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a continual feast.
 23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! (Prov. 15:13,15,23)
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Prov. 17:22• 22A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. (Prov. 17:22)
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Prov. 18:14• 14The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear? (Prov. 18:14)
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Neh. 2:1‑2• 1And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.
 2Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seeing thou art not sick? this is nothing else but sorrow of heart. Then I was very sore afraid, (Neh. 2:1‑2)
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Psa. 38:6• 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long. (Psa. 38:6)
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Psa. 42:11• 11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God. (Psa. 42:11)
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Mark 14:33‑34• 33And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy;
 34And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. (Mark 14:33‑34)
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Prov. 12:18• 18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health. (Prov. 12:18)
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Prov. 15:23• 23A man hath joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it! (Prov. 15:23)
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Prov. 16:24• 24Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. (Prov. 16:24)
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Prov. 25:11• 11A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. (Prov. 25:11)
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Prov. 27:9• 9Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel. (Prov. 27:9)
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Isa. 50:4• 4The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned. (Isa. 50:4)
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Zech. 1:13• 13And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words. (Zech. 1:13)
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2 Cor. 2:4‑7• 4For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.
 5But if any have caused grief, he hath not grieved me, but in part: that I may not overcharge you all.
 6Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.
 7So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow. (2 Cor. 2:4‑7)
• “How forcible are right words,” bringing comfort, cheer and encouragement to those in grief of soul and bitterness of spirit! (“Proverbs Twelve” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop; but a good word maketh it glad.