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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So that thou incline
qashab (Hebrew #7181)
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
KJV usage: attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
Pronounce: kaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
m thine ear
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
unto wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
, and apply
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
thine 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
to understanding
tabuwn (Hebrew #8394)
or towbunah {to-boo-naw'}; from 995; intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
KJV usage: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
Pronounce: taw-boon'
Origin: and (feminine) tbuwnah {teb-oo-naw'}
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Isa. 55:3• 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 18:1• 1He that separateth himself seeketh his pleasure, he is vehement against all sound wisdom. (Prov. 18:1)
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Psa. 119:111‑112• 111Thy testimonies have I taken as a heritage for ever; for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
 112I have inclined my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, unto the end. (Psa. 119:111‑112)
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Isa. 55:3• 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)
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Matt. 13:9• 9He that has ears, let him hear. (Matt. 13:9)
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Prov. 22:17‑21• 17Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
 18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
 19That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made them known to thee this day, even to thee.
 20Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
 21that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee? (Prov. 22:17‑21)
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Prov. 23:12• 12Apply thy heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge. (Prov. 23:12)
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Psa. 90:12• 12So teach us to number our days, that we may acquire a wise heart. (Psa. 90:12)
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Eccl. 7:25• 25I turned, I and my heart, to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom and reason, and to know wickedness to be folly, and foolishness to be madness; (Eccl. 7:25)
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Eccl. 8:9,16• 9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.
 16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes), (Eccl. 8:9,16)
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Acts 17:11• 11And these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, receiving the word with all readiness of mind, daily searching the scriptures if these things were so. (Acts 17:11)
• {v.2-3} The whole being is thus devoted to the search for the truth. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;