7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
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Proverbs 4
King James Version, Verse 7
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 4:7. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
When a verse uses different numbering in a source tradition, Spirit Nation may show the closest mapped source reference and label it directly on the panel.
Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
רֵאשִׁ֣ית חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה חָכְמָ֑ה וּבְכָל־קִ֝נְיָנְךָ֗ קְנֵ֣ה בִינָֽה׃
רֵאשִׁ֣ית
חָ֭כְמָה
קְנֵ֣ה
חָכְמָ֑ה
וּבְכָל
קִ֝נְיָנְךָ֗
קְנֵ֣ה
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܪܝܫ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܩܢܝ ܚܟܡܬܐ ܘܒܟܠܗ ܩܢܝܢܟ ܩܢܝ ܣܘܟܠܐ
ܪܝܫ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܪܝܫ
- Transliteration
- rysh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 81
ܚܟܡܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܚܟܡܬܐ
- Transliteration
- hkmt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 113
ܩܢܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܢܝ
- Transliteration
- qny
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 7
ܚܟܡܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܚܟܡܬܐ
- Transliteration
- hkmt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 113
ܘܒܟܠܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܒܟܠܗ
- Transliteration
- wbklh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 21
ܩܢܝܢܟ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܢܝܢܟ
- Transliteration
- qnynk
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 4
ܩܢܝ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܩܢܝ
- Transliteration
- qny
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 7
ܣܘܟܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܣܘܟܠܐ
- Transliteration
- swkl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 26
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
רֵישׁ חָכְמְתָא קְנֵה חָכְמְתָא וּבְכָל קִנְיָנָךְ קְנֵה בְיוּנָא׃
רֵישׁ
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ריש
- Transliteration
- rysh
- Morphology
- noun masculine singular
- Gloss
- head, chief, beginning
- Occurrences
- 378
חָכְמְתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חכמתא
- Transliteration
- chkmt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 56
קְנֵה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קנה
- Transliteration
- qnh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 12
חָכְמְתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חכמתא
- Transliteration
- chkmt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 56
וּבְכָל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- בכל
- Transliteration
- wbkl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 382
קִנְיָנָךְ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קנינך
- Transliteration
- qnynk
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 3
קְנֵה
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- קנה
- Transliteration
- qnh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 12
בְיוּנָא׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יונא
- Transliteration
- bywn'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 10
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Principium sapientiæ: posside sapientiam, et in omni possessione tua acquire prudentiam.
principium
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- principium
- Transliteration
- principium
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Gloss
- beginning
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- beginning, origin, foundation, principle
- Etymology
- From Latin princeps/principium language of firstness, beginning, or foundation.
- Occurrences
- 65
sapientiae
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sapientia
- Transliteration
- sapientiae
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 345
posside
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- possideo
- Transliteration
- posside
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 196
sapientiam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sapientia
- Transliteration
- sapientiam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 345
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
in
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- in
- Transliteration
- in
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adposition/preposition
- Gloss
- in
- Part of Speech
- preposition
- Definition
- in, into, among, on
- Etymology
- Latin preposition used with ablative for location or with accusative for motion.
- Occurrences
- 22264
omni
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- omnis
- Transliteration
- omni
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5506
possessione
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- possessio
- Transliteration
- possessione
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 191
tua
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tuus
- Transliteration
- tua
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5615
adquire
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- acquiro
- Transliteration
- adquire
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 16
prudentiam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- prudentia
- Transliteration
- prudentiam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 61
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Greek Septuagint tradition often follows different ordering, grouping, or book structure here. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.
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Greek LXX
alternate structure
This Greek source uses tradition-specific ordering or verse grouping here. The closest one-to-one panel is not currently attached for this exact reference.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
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For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.
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How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
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Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,
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Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN.
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The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
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But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
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