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Proverbs 26

Prov. 26:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A whip
showt (Hebrew #7752)
a lash (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: scourge, whip.
Pronounce: shote
Origin: from 7751
for the horse
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
, a bridle
metheg (Hebrew #4964)
a bit
KJV usage: bit, bridle.
Pronounce: meh-theg
Origin: from an unused root meaning to curb
for the ass
chamowr (Hebrew #2543)
from 2560; a male ass (from its dun red)
KJV usage: (he)ass.
Pronounce: kham-ore'
Origin: or (shortened) chamor {kham-ore}
, and a rod
shebet (Hebrew #7626)
a scion, i.e. (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
KJV usage: X correction, dart, rod, sceptre, staff, tribe.
Pronounce: shay'-bet
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to branch off
for the fool’s
kciyl (Hebrew #3684)
properly, fat, i.e. (figuratively) stupid or silly
KJV usage: fool(-ish).
Pronounce: kes-eel'
Origin: from 3688
back
gev (Hebrew #1460)
the back; by analogy, the middle
KJV usage: + among, back, body.
Pronounce: gave
Origin: from 1342 (corresponding to 1354)
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Cross References

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According to our notions, we should rather say, a bridle for the horse, and a whip for the ass; but it should be considered, that the Eastern asses are not only much more beautiful, but better goers that ours; and being active and well broken, they need only a bridle to guide them; whereas their horses being scarce, and often caught wild, and badly broken, are much less manageable, and need the correction of the whip.
Prov. 10:13• 13In the lips of an intelligent man wisdom is found; but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding. (Prov. 10:13)
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Prov. 17:10• 10A reproof entereth more deeply into him that hath understanding than a hundred stripes into a fool. (Prov. 17:10)
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Prov. 19:25• 25Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware; reprove the intelligent, and he will understand knowledge. (Prov. 19:25)
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Prov. 27:22• 22If thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his folly depart from him. (Prov. 27:22)
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Judg. 8:5‑7• 5And he said to the men of Succoth, Give, I pray you, loaves of bread to the people that follow me, for they are faint; and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, kings of Midian.
 6And the chief men of Succoth said, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in thy hand, that we should give bread to thine army?
 7And Gideon said, Therefore when Jehovah delivers Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will thresh your flesh with thorns of the wilderness and with briars. (Judg. 8:5‑7)
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Psa. 32:9• 9Be ye not as a horse, as a mule, which have no understanding: whose trappings must be bit and bridle, for restraint, or they will not come unto thee. (Psa. 32:9)
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1 Cor. 4:21• 21What will ye? that I come to you with a rod; or in love, and in a spirit of meekness? (1 Cor. 4:21)
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2 Cor. 10:6• 6and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled. (2 Cor. 10:6)
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2 Cor. 13:2• 2I have declared beforehand, and I say beforehand as present the second time, and now absent, to those that have sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again I will not spare. (2 Cor. 13:2)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the back of fools.