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Proverbs 21

Prov. 21:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The king’s
melek (Hebrew #4428)
a king
KJV usage: king, royal.
Pronounce: meh'-lek
Origin: from 4427
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
is in the hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, as the rivers
peleg (Hebrew #6388)
a rill (i.e. small channel of water, as in irrigation)
KJV usage: river, stream.
Pronounce: peh'-leg
Origin: from 6385
of water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
: he turneth
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
it whithersoever he will
chaphets (Hebrew #2654)
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
KJV usage: X any at all, (have, take) delight, desire, favour, like, move, be (well) pleased, have pleasure, will, would.
Pronounce: khaw-fates'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 16:1,9• 1The purposes of the heart are of man, but the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.
 9The heart of man deviseth his way, but Jehovah directeth his steps. (Prov. 16:1,9)
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Prov. 20:24• 24The steps of a man are from Jehovah; and how can a man understand his own way? (Prov. 20:24)
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Ezra 7:27‑28• 27Blessed be Jehovah the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of Jehovah which is at Jerusalem;
 28and has extended mercy to me before the king and his counsellors, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened, as the hand of Jehovah my God was upon me; and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me. (Ezra 7:27‑28)
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Neh. 1:11• 11O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants who delight to fear thy name; and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. Now I was the king's cupbearer. (Neh. 1:11)
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Neh. 2:4• 4And the king said to me, For what dost thou make request? So I prayed to the God of the heavens. (Neh. 2:4)
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Psa. 105:25• 25He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants. (Psa. 105:25)
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Psa. 106:46• 46And he caused them to find compassion of all those that had carried them captives. (Psa. 106:46)
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Dan. 4:35• 35And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; and he doeth according to his will in the army of the heavens, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? (Dan. 4:35)
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Acts 7:10• 10and delivered him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he appointed him chief over Egypt and all his house. (Acts 7:10)
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Psa. 74:15• 15*Thou* didst cleave fountain and torrent, *thou* driedst up ever-flowing rivers. (Psa. 74:15)
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Psa. 93:4• 4Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea. (Psa. 93:4)
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Psa. 114:3,5• 3The sea saw it and fled, the Jordan turned back;
 5What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back? (Psa. 114:3,5)
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Isa. 43:19• 19behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste. (Isa. 43:19)
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Isa. 44:27• 27that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers; (Isa. 44:27)
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Rev. 16:4,12• 4And the third poured out his bowl on the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; and they became blood.
 12And the sixth poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates; and its water was dried up, that the way of the kings from the rising of the sun might be prepared. (Rev. 16:4,12)
• Daniel endeavored to impress the Chaldean king with his duty to acknowledge “the God in whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways;” but he would not be humbled. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)
• There is no monarch so great that he can act in independence of God. Whether he owns it or not, Jehovah is controlling him as He controls the flow of the water-brooks. (“Proverbs Twenty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The king’s heart in the hand of Jehovah is as brooks of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.