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Proverbs 23

Prov. 23:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The father
'ab (Hebrew #1)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application)
KJV usage: chief, (fore-)father(-less), X patrimony, principal. Compare names in "Abi-".
Pronounce: awb
Origin: a primitive word
q of the righteous
tsaddiyq (Hebrew #6662)
just
KJV usage: just, lawful, righteous (man).
Pronounce: tsad-deek'
Origin: from 6663
shall greatly
giyl (Hebrew #1524)
a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy
KJV usage: X exceedingly, gladness, X greatly, joy, rejoice(-ing), sort.
Pronounce: gheel
Origin: from 1523
rejoice
giyl (Hebrew #1523)
a primitive root; properly, to spin round (under the influence of any violent emotion), i.e. usually rejoice, or (as cringing) fear
KJV usage: be glad, joy, be joyful, rejoice.
Pronounce: gheel
Origin: or (by permutation) guwl {gool}
: and he that begetteth
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
a wise
chakam (Hebrew #2450)
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
KJV usage: cunning (man), subtil, ((un-)), wise((hearted), man).
Pronounce: khaw-kawm'
Origin: from 2449
child shall have joy
samach (Hebrew #8055)
probably to brighten up, i.e. (figuratively) be (causatively, make) blithe or gleesome
KJV usage: cheer up, be (make) glad, (have, make) joy(-ful), be (make) merry, (cause to, make to) rejoice, X very.
Pronounce: saw-makh'
Origin: a primitive root
of him.
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Prov. 10:1• 1The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Prov. 10:1)
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Prov. 15:20• 20A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother. (Prov. 15:20)

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Righteousness

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 23:15‑16• 15My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine;
 16and my reins shall exult, when thy lips speak right things. (Prov. 23:15‑16)
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Prov. 10:1• 1The Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish son is the grief of his mother. (Prov. 10:1)
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Prov. 15:20• 20A wise son maketh a glad father; but a foolish man despiseth his mother. (Prov. 15:20)
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1 Kings 1:48• 48And also thus said the king: Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, who has given one to sit on my throne this day, mine eyes even seeing it. (1 Kings 1:48)
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1 Kings 2:1‑3,9• 1And the days of David were at hand that he should die; and he enjoined Solomon his son saying,
 2I go the way of all the earth: be of good courage therefore, and be a man;
 3and keep the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thyself;
 9And now hold him not guiltless; for thou art a wise man, and thou shalt know what thou oughtest to do to him; but bring his hoar head down to Sheol with blood. (1 Kings 2:1‑3,9)
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Eccl. 2:19• 19And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity. (Eccl. 2:19)
shall have.
Philem. 9,20• 9for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also prisoner of Jesus Christ.
 20Yea, brother, *I* would have profit of *thee* in the Lord: refresh my bowels in Christ. (Philem. 9,20)
• {v.24-25} See second clause of Proverbs 10:1. Righteousness and wisdom in their children fill the hearts of parents with a joy beyond telling. (“Proverbs Twenty-Three” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The father of a righteous man shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise son shall have joy of him: