Practical Advice from the Proverbs
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Week 20: Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.
Memory Helper
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 12:25
H________ i_ t__ h____ o_ m__ m_____ i_ s____: b__ a g___ w___ m_____ i_ g___. Proverbs 12:25
Historical Context
Who?
King Solomon
When?
Early in his reign, after 970 B.C.
Why?
To apply God’s wisdom to daily life.
For whom?
Israelites (The Jewish People).
Word Studies
Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad. Proverbs 12:25
Heaviness | דְּאָגָה
dᵊ'āḡâ
Pronunciation: deh-aw-gaw'
Definition:
- anxiety, anxious care, care
Translations:
- carefulness 2x
- fear 1x
- heaviness 1x
Stoop | שָׁחָה
šāḥâ
Pronunciation: shaw-khaw'
Definition:
- to bow down
- to depress
Translations:
- worship 99x
- bow 31x
- bow down 18x
- fall down 3x
- stoop 1x
- crouch 1x
Word | דָּבָר
dāḇār
Pronunciation: daw-baw'
Definition:
- speech word, speaking, thing
- saying, utterance
- acts, matter, case, manner (by extension)
Translations:
- word 807x
- thing 231x
- matter 63x
- chronicles 38x
- saying 25x
Glad | שָׂמַח
śāmaḥ
Pronunciation: saw-makh'
Definition:
- to rejoice, be glad
- to cause to rejoice, gladden, make glad
Translations:
- rejoice 95x
- glad 45x
- joy 5x
Paraphrase
[Anxiety] in the heart of man maketh it [depressed]: but a good [manner] maketh it [glad]. Proverbs 12:25
Cross References
Proverbs 17:22
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Proverbs 15:13
A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
Isaiah 50:4
The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
