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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:9 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thent shalt thou understand
biyn (Hebrew #995)
to separate mentally (or distinguish), i.e.(generally) understand
KJV usage: attend, consider, be cunning, diligently, direct, discern, eloquent, feel, inform, instruct, have intelligence, know, look well to, mark, perceive, be prudent, regard, (can) skill(-full), teach, think, (cause, make to, get, give, have) understand(-ing), view, (deal) wise(-ly, man).
Pronounce: bene
Origin: a primitive root
righteousness
tsedeq (Hebrew #6664)
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
KJV usage: X even, (X that which is altogether) just(-ice), ((un-))right(-eous) (cause, -ly, - ness).
Pronounce: tseh'-dek
Origin: from 6663
, and judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
, and equity
meyshar (Hebrew #4339)
evenness, i.e. (figuratively) prosperity or concord; also straightness, i.e. (figuratively) rectitude (only in plural with singular sense; often adverbially)
KJV usage: agreement, aright, that are equal, equity, (things that are) right(-eously, things), sweetly, upright(-ly, -ness).
Pronounce: may-shawr'
Origin: from 3474
; yea, every good
towb (Hebrew #2896)
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
KJV usage: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, sweet, wealth, welfare, (be) well ((-favoured)).
Pronounce: tobe
Origin: from 2895
path
ma`gal (Hebrew #4570)
from the same as 5696; a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
KJV usage: going, path, trench, way((-side)).
Pronounce: mah-gawl'
Origin: or feminine mapgalah {mah-gaw-law'}
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Psa. 119:99• 99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. (Psa. 119:99)

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Cross References

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Prov. 1:2‑6• 2To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
 3To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
 4To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
 5A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
 6To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. (Prov. 1:2‑6)
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Psa. 25:8‑9• 8Good and upright is the Lord: therefore will he teach sinners in the way.
 9The meek will he guide in judgment: and the meek will he teach his way. (Psa. 25:8‑9)
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Psa. 32:8• 8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye. (Psa. 32:8)
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Psa. 119:99,105• 99I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
 105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psa. 119:99,105)
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Psa. 143:8‑10• 8Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
 9Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.
 10Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. (Psa. 143:8‑10)
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Isa. 35:8• 8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. (Isa. 35:8)
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Isa. 48:17• 17Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go. (Isa. 48:17)
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Jer. 6:16• 16Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. (Jer. 6:16)
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Matt. 7:13‑14• 13Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
 14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matt. 7:13‑14)
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John 14:6• 6Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgmenth and equity: every good pathi.

JND Translation Notes

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"Just judgment" or "justice."
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The word is difficult to render. It is properly "a path going round," and hence used for the "entrenchment" of a war camp, as "wagon-defence" in 1 Sam. 17.20. It is applied, as in Ps. 17.5; 23.3, to God's path for the saint, which does not always lead where we expect, or so that we can see straight on in it; and also to the shifting ways of the wicked, as ver. 18; and so in ver. 15, where the plural is rendered collectively "course."