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Proverbs 27

Prov. 27:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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A continual
tarad (Hebrew #2956)
to drive on; figuratively, to follow close
KJV usage: continual.
Pronounce: taw-rad'
Origin: a primitive root
n dropping
deleph (Hebrew #1812)
a dripping
KJV usage: dropping.
Pronounce: deh'-lef
Origin: from 1811
in a very rainy
cagriyd (Hebrew #5464)
a pouring rain
KJV usage: very rainy.
Pronounce: sag-reed'
Origin: probably from 5462 in the sense of sweeping away
day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
and a contentious
madown (Hebrew #4066)
a contest or quarrel
KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous), discord, strife. Compare 4079, 4090.
Pronounce: maw-dohn'
Origin: from 1777
midyan (Hebrew #4079)
a variation for 4066
KJV usage: brawling, contention(-ous).
Pronounce: mid-yawn'
woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
are alike
shavah (Hebrew #7737)
properly, to level, i.e. equalize; figuratively, to resemble; by implication, to adjust (i.e. counterbalance, be suitable, compose, place, yield, etc.)
KJV usage: avail, behave, bring forth, compare, countervail, (be, make) equal, lay, be (make, a- )like, make plain, profit, reckon.
Pronounce: shaw-vaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Prov. 19:13• 13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. (Prov. 19:13)

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Ministry on This Verse

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A continual.
Prov. 19:13• 13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. (Prov. 19:13)
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Prov. 21:9,19• 9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
 19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. (Prov. 21:9,19)
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Prov. 25:24• 24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house. (Prov. 25:24)
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Job 14:19• 19The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. (Job 14:19)
• See notes on Proverbs 21:9,19. No better comment could be written on the first of these verses than Dr. Thompson’s description of a Palestine rain-storm. He says: “Such rains as we have had thoroughly soak through the fiat earthen roofs of these mountain houses, and the water descends in numberless leaks all over the room. This continual dropping—tuk, tuk—all day and all night, is the most annoying thing in the world, unless it be the ceaseless chatter of a contentious woman.” (“Proverbs Twenty-Seven” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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A continual dropping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike: