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Proverbs 20

Prov. 20:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Even a child
na`ar (Hebrew #5288)
(concretely) a boy (as active), from the age of infancy to adolescence; by implication, a servant; also (by interch. of sex), a girl (of similar latitude in age)
KJV usage: babe, boy, child, damsel (from the margin), lad, servant, young (man).
Pronounce: nah'-ar
Origin: from 5287
is known
nakar (Hebrew #5234)
properly, to scrutinize, i.e. look intently at; hence (with recognition implied), to acknowledge, be acquainted with, care for, respect, revere, or (with suspicion implied), to disregard, ignore, be strange toward, reject, resign, dissimulate (as if ignorant or disowning)
KJV usage: acknowledge, X could, deliver, discern, dissemble, estrange, feign self to be another, know, take knowledge (notice), perceive, regard, (have) respect, behave (make) self strange(-ly).
Pronounce: naw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
by his doings
ma`alal (Hebrew #4611)
an act (good or bad)
KJV usage: doing, endeavour, invention, work.
Pronounce: mah-al-awl'
Origin: from 5953
, whether his work
po`al (Hebrew #6467)
an act or work (concretely)
KJV usage: act, deed, do, getting, maker, work.
Pronounce: po'-al
Origin: from 6466
be pure
zak (Hebrew #2134)
clear
KJV usage: clean, pure.
Pronounce: zak
Origin: from 2141
, and whether it be right
yashar (Hebrew #3477)
straight (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: convenient, equity, Jasher, just, meet(-est), + pleased well right(-eous), straight, (most) upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: yaw-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 21:8• 8Very crooked is the way of a guilty man; but as for the pure, his work is upright. (Prov. 21:8)
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Prov. 22:15• 15Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. (Prov. 22:15)
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Psa. 51:5• 5Behold, in iniquity was I brought forth, and in sin did my mother conceive me. (Psa. 51:5)
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Psa. 58:3• 3The wicked go astray from the womb; they err as soon as they are born, speaking lies. (Psa. 58:3)
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Matt. 7:16• 16By their fruits ye shall know them. Do men gather a bunch of grapes from thorns, or from thistles figs? (Matt. 7:16)
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Luke 1:15,66• 15For he shall be great before the Lord, and he shall drink no wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb.
 66And all who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then will this child be? And the Lord's hand was with him. (Luke 1:15,66)
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Luke 2:46‑47• 46And it came to pass, after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers and hearing them and asking them questions.
 47And all who heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. (Luke 2:46‑47)
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Luke 6:43‑44• 43For there is no good tree which produces corrupt fruit, nor a corrupt tree which produces good fruit;
 44for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble. (Luke 6:43‑44)
• Even in the case of a child, his ways and doings declare what he is, as in the instance of little Samuel in the tabernacle (1 Sam. 3:18-21). (“Proverbs Twenty” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.