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Chapter 4
Verse 7
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Proverbs 4

King James Version, Verse 7

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7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

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Source Text Study

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.

Panels 5
Word Entries 35
Editorial Notes 1
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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.

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Westminster Leningrad Codex Hebrew · Hebrew Bible · Public Domain

Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible

Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.

רֵאשִׁ֣ית חָ֭כְמָה קְנֵ֣ה חָכְמָ֑ה וּבְכָל־קִ֝נְיָנְךָ֗ קְנֵ֣ה בִינָֽה׃

8 word entries
רֵאשִׁ֣ית
Lemma
7225
Morphology
Hebrew: noun common feminine singular construct
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
H7225
Occurrences
30
חָ֭כְמָה
Lemma
2451
Morphology
Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
H2451
Occurrences
102
קְנֵ֣ה
Lemma
7069
Morphology
Hebrew: verb qal imperative 2rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
H7069
Occurrences
61
חָכְמָ֑ה
Lemma
2451
Morphology
Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
H2451
Occurrences
102
וּבְכָל
Morphology
Hebrew: conjunction + preposition + noun common masculine singular construct
Part of Speech
conjunction
Strong's
H3605
Occurrences
100
קִ֝נְיָנְךָ֗
Lemma
7075
Morphology
Hebrew: noun common masculine singular construct + suffix
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
H7075
Occurrences
6
קְנֵ֣ה
Lemma
7069
Morphology
Hebrew: verb qal imperative 2rd person masculine singular
Part of Speech
verb
Strong's
H7069
Occurrences
61
בִינָֽה
Lemma
998
Morphology
Hebrew: noun common feminine singular absolute
Part of Speech
noun
Strong's
H998
Occurrences
25
Syriac Peshitta Old Testament Syriac · Syriac Peshitta · MIT License

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

8 word entries
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transliteration
swkl'
Morphology
probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
Occurrences
26
Targumim on Prophets and Writings Aramaic · Targum Jonathan and Writings Targumim · Public Domain

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׃

8 word entries
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.
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.
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.
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.
Transliteration
bywn'
Morphology
preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
Occurrences
10
Latin Vulgate Clementine Latin · Latin Vulgate · Public Domain text; CC BY-SA 4.0 morphology

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.

11 word entries
principium
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
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
Transliteration
sapientiae
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences
345
posside
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
Transliteration
posside
Morphology
GreLa POS: verb
Occurrences
196
sapientiam
Status
Dataset-backed morphology
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
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
Transliteration
prudentiam
Morphology
GreLa POS: noun
Occurrences
61
Spirit Nation Greek LXX Alignment Note English · Greek Septuagint Structure · Spirit Nation Editorial Note

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.

Source availability notes

These notes explain relevant source panels that are not shown for this verse because of source coverage, licensing, alternate traditions, or versification structure.

  • 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.

Ecclesiastes 7:12

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.

22 relevance votes

Proverbs 23:23

Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

15 relevance votes

Proverbs 16:16

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!

11 relevance votes

Philippians 3:8

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,

9 relevance votes

Psalms 119:104

Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way. נ NUN.

2 relevance votes

Proverbs 21:6

The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.

1 relevance votes

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, \+add Thou\+add* fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

1 relevance votes

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone , and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he , For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

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Luke 10:42

But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

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