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Proverbs 8

Prov. 8:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Then 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
possessed
qanah (Hebrew #7069)
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
KJV usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Pronounce: kaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
me in the beginning
re'shiyth (Hebrew #7225)
the first, in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit)
KJV usage: beginning, chief(-est), first(-fruits, part, time), principal thing.
Pronounce: ray-sheeth'
Origin: from the same as 7218
of his way
derek (Hebrew #1870)
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
KJV usage: along, away, because of, + by, conversation, custom, (east-)ward, journey, manner, passenger, through, toward, (high-) (path-)way(-side), whither(-soever).
Pronounce: deh'-rek
Origin: from 1869
, before
qedem (Hebrew #6924)
from 6923; the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the East) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
KJV usage: aforetime, ancient (time), before, east (end, part, side, -ward), eternal, X ever(-lasting), forward, old, past. Compare 6926.
Pronounce: keh'-dem
Origin: or qedmah {kayd'-maw}
his works
miph`al (Hebrew #4659)
from 6466; a performance
KJV usage: work.
Pronounce: mif-awl'
Origin: or (feminine) miph.alah {mif-aw-law'}
of old.
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John 1:1• 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 3:19• 19The Lord by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens. (Prov. 3:19)
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John 1:1‑2• 1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
 2The same was in the beginning with God. (John 1:1‑2)
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Col. 1:17• 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist. (Col. 1:17)
• It is Christ as the Uncreated Word, yet the Begotten Son by eternal generation; words admittedly paradoxical, but after all distinctly Scriptural. (“Proverbs Eight” by H.A. Ironside)
• Far back of the beginning of Genesis 1:1, to that “unbeginning beginning” of John 1:1, does the Spirit here carry us. There, in the past eternity, “when anything that ever had beginning began, the Word was,” and that Word was the eternal Wisdom of God. It is a scene of fellowship to which we are introduced—Jehovah possessed Him. (“Proverbs Eight” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his worksl of old.

JND Translation Notes

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See Ps. 46.8.