Proverbs 7:4

Proverbs 7:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
• New International Version (NIV)Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
• New King James Version (NKJV)Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” And call understanding your nearest kin,

Context of Proverbs 7:4

2Keep my mitzvot and live, my teaching as the apple of your eye. 3Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your relative. 5They will keep you from a seducing woman, from the foreign woman with her seductive speech. 6For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice.

Proverbs 7:4 word by word

אֱמֹ֣ר לַֽ֭חָכְמָה אֲחֹ֣תִי אָ֑תְּ וּ֝מֹדָ֗ע לַבִּינָ֥ה תִקְרָֽא׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• unto wisdomחׇכְמָהchokmâh · wisdomH2451
• my sisterאָחוֹת'âchôth · sisterH269
• and callקָרָאqârâ' · to call: call toH7121
• understandingבִּינָהbîynâh · understandingH998
• kinswomanמוֹדַעmôda‛ môdâ‛ · kinsmanH4129

Cross-references for Proverbs 7:4

• Proverbs 2:2making your ear attentive to wisdom, inclining your heart to discernment,
• Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake her, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will watch over you.
• Proverbs 11:18The wicked earn deceptive wages, but a sower of righteousness reaps a true reward.
• Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it on a tablet for them and inscribe it in a scroll, so that it may be as a witness for the last day, forever.
• Jeremiah 17:1Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
• Jeremiah 31:33No longer will each teach his neighbor or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.” it is a declaration of Adonai. “For I will forgive their iniquity, their sin I will remember no more.”
• 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Commentaries on Proverbs 7:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thou art my sister - Thou art my dearest friend, and I will treat thee as such.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4In Hebrew, sister is a term of endearment that shows closeness (see Song of Solomon 4:9–10).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 7:4

• Chastity
• Commandments
• Wisdom
• Young Men

In the dictionaries

• Chamber
• Discern
• Goodman
• Loud
• Adultery
• Hezekiah (2)
• Kinsman; Kinswoman
• Proverbs, the Book of
• Sister

Commentaries on Proverbs 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings