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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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So that thou incline
qashab (Hebrew #7181)
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken
KJV usage: attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
Pronounce: kaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
m thine ear
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
unto wisdom
chokmah (Hebrew #2451)
wisdom (in a good sense)
KJV usage: skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
Pronounce: khok-maw'
Origin: from 2449
, and apply
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
thine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
to understanding
tabuwn (Hebrew #8394)
or towbunah {to-boo-naw'}; from 995; intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice
KJV usage: discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
Pronounce: taw-boon'
Origin: and (feminine) tbuwnah {teb-oo-naw'}
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Isa. 55:3• 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. 55:3)

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Prov. 18:1• 1He that separateth himself seeketh pleasure,{HR}He rageth against all wisdom. (Prov. 18:1)
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Psa. 119:111‑112• 111I inherit thy testimonies forever,{HR}For they [are] my heart's rejoicing.
 112I incline my heart to do thy statutes{HR}For ever [to] the end. (Psa. 119:111‑112)
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Isa. 55:3• 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. 55:3)
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Matt. 13:9• 9He that has ears, let him hear. (Matt. 13:9)
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Prov. 22:17‑21• 17Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise,{HR}And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
 18For [it is] a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee:{HR}They shall be together fitted to thy lips.
 19That thy trust may be in Jehovah,{HR}I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
 20Have not I written to thee excellent things{HR}In counsels and knowledge,
 21That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth;{HR}That thou mightest report words of truth to them that send thee? (Prov. 22:17‑21)
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Prov. 23:12• 12Apply thy heart unto instruction,{HR}And thy ears to the words of knowledge. (Prov. 23:12)
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Psa. 90:12• 12To number our days thus make [us] know,{HR}And we will get us a heart of wisdom. (Psa. 90:12)
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Eccl. 7:25• 25I turned about, I and my heart,{HR}To know and to search out,{HR}And to seek wisdom and the reason [of things],{HR}And to know [that] wickedness [is] folly,{HR}And [that] foolishness [is] madness: (Eccl. 7:25)
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Eccl. 8:9,16• 9All this have I seen,{HR}And applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun:{HR}There is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
 16When I applied mine heart to know wisdom,{HR}And to see the business that is done upon the earth:{HR}(For also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) (Eccl. 8:9,16)
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Acts 17:11• 11Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, being such as received the word with all readiness of mind, day by day examining the scriptures whether these things were so. (Acts 17:11)
• {v.2-3} The whole being is thus devoted to the search for the truth. (“Proverbs Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;

W. Kelly Translation

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So that thou wilt incline thine ear to wisdom,{HR}And apply thy heart to understanding;