Proverbs
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Proverbs 1:1
מִ֭שְׁלֵי שְׁלֹמֹ֣ה בֶן דָּוִ֑ד מֶ֝֗לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
proverbs of · Solomon · son of · David · king of · Israel
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Counted here from the morphology-tagged text of Proverbs — nouns, verbs and adjectives only, so the article, conjunctions, prepositions and pronouns are left out. Each word opens its full lexicon entry and every verse it appears in.
- לֵב H3820 lêb heart 93
- אִישׁ H376 ʼîysh man 91
- יהוה H3068 Yᵉhôvâh LORD 87
- רָשָׁע H7563 râshâʻ wicked 78
- כֹּל H3605 kôl all 77
- דֶּ֫רֶךְ H1870 derek way 76
- רַע H7451 raʻ evil 68
- צַדִּיק H6662 tsaddîyq righteous 66
- טוֹב H2896 ṭôwb good 62
- בֵּן H1121 bên son 60
- נֶ֫פֶשׁ H5315 nephesh soul 56
- פֶּה H6310 peh mouth 56
About this book
- 31 Chapters
- 915 Verses
- 6,984 Hebrew words
- 1,328 Distinct lemmas
Proverbs is part of the Hebrew Old Testament and contains 31 chapters in the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Every chapter on this site is browseable verse by verse, with each verse showing the original Hebrew text alongside transliteration, Strong's number, concise gloss, and parsing (part of speech, stem, person, gender, number, state). Pick a chapter above to begin.
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