Proverbs 19:18 | While There is Hope

July 5, 2023

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Week 27: Proverbs 19:18

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying.

Scripture Memory

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Proverbs 19:18

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Proverbs 19:18

C______ t__ s__ w____ t____ i_ h___, a__ l__ n__ t__ s___ s____ f__ h__ c_____. Proverbs 19:18

Bible 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

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. Proverbs 19:18

Chasten | יָסַר

yāsar

Pronunciation: yaw-sar'

Definition:

chasten, discipline, admonish
instruct
to teach

Translations:

chastise 21x
instruct 8x
correct 7x
taught 2x

Hope | תִּקְוָה

tiqvâ

Pronunciation: tik-vaw'

Definition:

hope, expectation
things hoped for, outcome

Translations:

hope 23x
expectation 7x
the thing that I long for 1x

Soul | נֶפֶשׁ

nep̄eš

Pronunciation: neh'-fesh

Definition:

soul, self, life, person
mind, desire, emotion, passion
that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
soul, the inner being of man

Translations:

soul 475x
life 117x
person 29x
mind 15x

Spare | נָשָׂא

nāśā'

Pronunciation: naw-saw'

Definition:

to lift, bear up, carry, take
to bear, support, sustain
to be taken away, be carried off, be swept away

Translations:

(bare, lift, etc…) up 219x
bear 115x
carry 30x
regard 5x

Crying | מוּת

mûṯ

Pronunciation: mooth

Definition:

to die (literally or figuratively)
to die prematurely (by neglect of wise moral conduct)
to be killed, be put to death

Translations:

die 424x
dead 130x
slay 100x

Additional Note:

The Strong’s Definitions Legend, as read on BlueLetterBible.org, indicates that the translation of this word as “crying” here “denotes a rendering that results from an idiom peculiar to the Greek or Hebrew.”

Paraphrase

[Discipline] thy son while there is [expectation, things hoped for], and let not thy [soul, emotion, passion] [be swept away, carried off] for his [death (figuratively, by neglect of wise moral conduct)]. Proverbs 19:18

Bible Cross References

Proverbs 13:24

He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Hebrews 12:7-10

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.