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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, even the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)

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thou.
Prov. 18:1• 1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom. (Prov. 18:1)
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Psa. 119:111‑112• 111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
 112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even 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, even the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:3)
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Matt. 13:9• 9Who hath ears to hear, let him hear. (Matt. 13:9)
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Prov. 22:17‑21• 17Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
 18For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips.
 19That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made 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 answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee? (Prov. 22:17‑21)
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Prov. 23:12• 12Apply thine 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 apply our hearts unto wisdom. (Psa. 90:12)
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Eccl. 7:25• 25I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and 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 wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
 16When I applied mine 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• 11These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those 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;