Proverbs 22:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹ֤א כָתַ֣בְתִּי לְ֭ךָ *שלשום **שָׁלִישִׁ֑ים בְּמ֖וֹעֵצֹ֣ת וָדָֽעַת׃

Transliteration

Have-not KāTabTî to-you šālîšîm in mô'ēṣōT and dā'aT?

Grammar Details

Have-not: interrogative particle with negative particle, *hălō'* - have not/did not
*KāTabTî*: verb, Qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have written
to-you: preposition with pronominal suffix, *lĕKā* - to/for you
*šālîšîm*: noun, masculine plural - thirty/officers/excellent things
in: preposition, *bĕ* - in/with
*mô'ēṣōT*: noun, feminine plural - counsels/advices
and: conjunction, *wā* - and
*dā'aT*: noun, feminine singular - knowledge

Word Meanings

*KāTabTî*: I have written/I have recorded/I have inscribed
*šālîšîm*: excellent things/choice sayings/thirty (things)/officers
*mô'ēṣōT*: counsels/advices/plans/deliberations
*dā'aT*: knowledge/insight/understanding

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Prov 8:6 : 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Hos 8:12 : 12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 16 Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. 17 That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work.
2 Pet 1:19-21 : 19 And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until {G3757} the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of {G3956} private interpretation. 21 For no prophecy ever came {G4218} by the will of man: but {G40} men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
Ps 12:6 : 6 The words of Jehovah are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, Purified seven times.

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