8 The wise in heart accepteth commands, And a talkative fool kicketh.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 10:8. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
חֲכַם־לֵ֭ב יִקַּ֣ח מִצְוֺ֑ת וֶאֱוִ֥יל שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם יִלָּבֵֽט׃
לֵ֭ב
יִקַּ֣ח
מִצְוֺ֑ת
וֶאֱוִ֥יל
שְׂ֝פָתַ֗יִם
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Σοφὸς καρδίᾳ δέξεται ἐντολὰς, ὁ δὲ ἄστεγος χείλες σκολιάζων ὑποσκελισθήσεται.
Σοφὸς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- σοφός
- Transliteration
- sophos
- Morphology
- adjective, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- wise
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Definition
- Wise, skilled, or prudent.
- Occurrences
- 61
καρδίᾳ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καρδία
- Transliteration
- kardia
- Morphology
- noun, feminine nominative singular
- Gloss
- heart
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Heart, inner life, mind, or will.
- Occurrences
- 867
δέξεται
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- δέξεται
- Transliteration
- dexetai
- Morphology
- verb, present/future middle-passive form, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 5
ἐντολὰς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἐντολή
- Transliteration
- entolas
- Morphology
- noun, feminine accusative plural
- Gloss
- commandments
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Command, commandment, instruction, or charge.
- Occurrences
- 129
ὁ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
ἄστεγος
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- ἄστεγος
- Transliteration
- astegos
- Morphology
- nominative masculine singular or genitive neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
χείλες
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- χείλες
- Transliteration
- cheiles
- Morphology
- nominative/vocative plural masculine/feminine pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 1
σκολιάζων
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- σκολιάζων
- Transliteration
- skoliazon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 3
ὑποσκελισθήσεται
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὑποσκελισθήσεται
- Transliteration
- yposkelisthesetai
- Morphology
- verb, future middle indicative, 3rd singular
- Gloss
- he/she/it will ...
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 3
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.
ܕܚܟܝܡ ܠܒܗ ܢܩܒܠ ܦܘܩܕܢܐ ܘܕܫ̈ܛܝܢ ܣ̈ܦܘܬܗ ܡܬܬܚܕ
ܕܚܟܝܡ
- 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
- ܕܚܟܝܡ
- Transliteration
- dhkym
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 7
ܠܒܗ
- 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
- ܠܒܗ
- Transliteration
- lbh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 91
ܢܩܒܠ
- 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
- ܢܩܒܠ
- Transliteration
- nqbl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 12
ܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- 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
- ܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- Transliteration
- pwqdn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 62
ܘܕܫ̈ܛܝܢ
- 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
- ܘܕܫܛܝܢ
- Transliteration
- wdshtyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1
ܣ̈ܦܘܬܗ
- 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
- ܣܦܘܬܗ
- Transliteration
- spwth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 22
ܡܬܬܚܕ
- 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
- ܡܬܬܚܕ
- Transliteration
- mtthd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 4
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.
דְחַכִּים לִבֵּיהּ יְקַבֵּל פּוּקְדָנָא וְסַכְלָא בְּשִׂפְוָתֵיהּ מִתְאֲחֵד׃
דְחַכִּים
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חכים
- Transliteration
- dchkym
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 42
לִבֵּיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ביה
- Transliteration
- lbyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 359
יְקַבֵּל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יקבל
- Transliteration
- yqbl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 27
פּוּקְדָנָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פוקדנא
- Transliteration
- pwqdn'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 6
וְסַכְלָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- סכלא
- Transliteration
- wskl'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 38
בְּשִׂפְוָתֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- שפותיה
- Transliteration
- bshpwtyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 15
מִתְאֲחֵד׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תאחד
- Transliteration
- mt'chd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 4
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Sapiens corde præcepta suscipit; stultus cæditur labiis.
sapiens
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sapiens
- Transliteration
- sapiens
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 208
corde
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- cor
- Transliteration
- corde
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1028
praecepta
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- praeceptum
- Transliteration
- praecepta
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 201
suscipiet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suscipio
- Transliteration
- suscipiet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 184
stultus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- stultus
- Transliteration
- stultus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 129
caeditur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- caedo
- Transliteration
- caeditur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 89
labiis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- labium
- Transliteration
- labiis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 109
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.
James 3:13
Who [is] wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
5 relevance votesProverbs 12:1
Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof [is] brutish.
5 relevance votesProverbs 9:9
Give to the wise, and he is wiser still, Make known to the righteous, And he increaseth learning.
4 relevance votesPsalms 119:34
Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.
4 relevance votesProverbs 1:5
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
3 relevance votesEcclesiastes 10:12
Words of the mouth of the wise [are] gracious, And the lips of a fool swallow him up.
3 relevance votesProverbs 13:3
Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips — ruin to him!
3 relevance votesProverbs 10:10
Whoso is winking the eye giveth grief, And a talkative fool kicketh.
2 relevance votesProverbs 14:23
In all labour there is advantage, And a thing of the lips [is] only to want.
2 relevance votesProverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent [is] to understand his way, And the folly of fools [is] deceit.
2 relevance votesProverbs 12:13
In transgression of the lips [is] the snare of the wicked, And the righteous goeth out from distress.
2 relevance votes