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Proverbs 17

Prov. 17:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ah reproof
g`arah (Hebrew #1606)
a chiding
KJV usage: rebuke(-ing), reproof.
Pronounce: gheh-aw-raw'
Origin: from 1605
νentereth
nachath (Hebrew #5181)
to sink, i.e. descend; causatively, to press or lead down
KJV usage: be broken, (cause to) come down, enter, go down, press sore, settle, stick fast.
Pronounce: naw-khath'
Origin: a primitive root
more into a wise man
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
than an hundred
me'ah (Hebrew #3967)
properly, a primitive numeral; a hundred; also as a multiplicative and a fraction
KJV usage: hundred((-fold), -th), + sixscore.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: or metyah {may-yaw'}
stripes
nakah (Hebrew #5221)
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: beat, cast forth, clap, give (wounds), X go forward, X indeed, kill, make (slaughter), murderer, punish, slaughter, slay(-er, -ing), smite(-r, -ing), strike, be stricken, (give) stripes, X surely, wound.
Pronounce: naw-kaw'
Origin: a primitive root
into a fool
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
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Prov. 15:5• 5A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent. (Prov. 15:5)
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or, aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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or, A reproof aweth more a wise man, than to strike a fool an hundred times.
Prov. 9:8‑9• 8Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee; reprove a wise man, and he will love thee.
 9Impart to a wise man, and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase learning. (Prov. 9:8‑9)
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Prov. 13:1• 1A wise son heareth his father's instruction; but a scorner heareth not rebuke. (Prov. 13:1)
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Prov. 15:5• 5A fool despiseth his father's instruction; but he that regardeth reproof becometh prudent. (Prov. 15:5)
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Prov. 19:25• 25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge. (Prov. 19:25)
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Prov. 27:22• 22If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him. (Prov. 27:22)
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Prov. 29:19• 19A servant is not corrected by words: he understandeth indeed, but he will not answer. (Prov. 29:19)
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Psa. 141:5• 5Let the righteous smite me, it is kindness; and let him reprove me, it is an excellent oil which my head shall not refuse: for yet my prayer also is for them in their calamities. (Psa. 141:5)
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Rev. 3:19• 19I rebuke and discipline as many as I love; be zealous therefore and repent. (Rev. 3:19)
• Chastise the fool severely, and he maintains his self-complacency still; but gently reprove a wise man, and he will take it to heart. (“Proverbs Seventeen” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a foolb.

JND Translation Notes

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Kesil. so vers. 12,16,21,24. (In ver. 28 it is Eveel. as ch. 1.7.) Also chs. 18.2,6,7; 19.1,10.