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Proverbs 8

Prov. 8:33 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Hear
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
instruction
muwcar (Hebrew #4148)
properly, chastisement; figuratively, reproof, warning or instruction; also restraint
KJV usage: bond, chastening ((-eth)), chastisement, check, correction, discipline, doctrine, instruction, rebuke.
Pronounce: moo-sawr'
Origin: from 3256
, and be wise
chakam (Hebrew #2449)
a primitive root, to be wise (in mind, word or act)
KJV usage: X exceeding, teach wisdom, be (make self, shew self) wise, deal (never so) wisely, make wiser.
Pronounce: khaw-kam'
, and refuse
para` (Hebrew #6544)
to loosen; by implication, to expose, dismiss; figuratively, absolve, begin
KJV usage: avenge, avoid, bare, go back, let, (make) naked, set at nought, perish, refuse, uncover.
Pronounce: paw-rah'
Origin: a primitive root
it not.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Hear.
Prov. 1:2‑3,8• 2to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
 3to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
 8Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother; (Prov. 1:2‑3,8)
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Prov. 4:1• 1Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know intelligence; (Prov. 4:1)
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Prov. 5:1• 1My son, attend unto my wisdom, incline thine ear to my understanding; (Prov. 5:1)
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Isa. 55:1‑3• 1Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy, and eat: yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price!
 2Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
 3Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the sure mercies of David. (Isa. 55:1‑3)
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Rom. 10:16‑17• 16But they have not all obeyed the glad tidings. For Esaias says, Lord, who has believed our report?
 17So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word. (Rom. 10:16‑17)
refuse.
Prov. 1:21• 21she calleth in the chief place of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words: (Prov. 1:21)
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Psa. 81:11‑12• 11But my people hearkened not to my voice, and Israel would none of me.
 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. (Psa. 81:11‑12)
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Acts 7:35‑37• 35This Moses, whom they refused, saying, Who made thee ruler and judge? him did God send to be a ruler and deliverer with the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
 36*He* led them out, having wrought wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.
 37This is the Moses who said to the sons of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up to you out of your brethren like me him shall ye hear. (Acts 7:35‑37)
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Heb. 12:25• 25See that ye refuse not him that speaks. For if those did not escape who had refused him who uttered the oracles on earth, much more we who turn away from him who does so from heaven: (Heb. 12:25)
• To refuse instruction and spurn the ways of understanding is to trample on divine affection and to harden the heart against divine grace. (“Proverbs Eight” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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hear instruction and be wise, and refuse it not.