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God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:20 Compassionate hands
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:20 20 She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy. The eleventh letter in the Hebrew alphabet is kaph, which in this case is also the word before us, since kaph is the name of the letter and the word for “palm […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:19 The distaff and spindle
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:19 19 She stretches out her hand to the distaff, and grasps the spindle in her palm. The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is yod, the little letter that resembles an apostrophe ( ’ ). Here it begins the word yad, which means “hand.” A rare idiom […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:18 Her lamp does not go out
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:18 18 In her experience, her trade is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night. Hebrew has two or three ways of pronouncing the letter T. This verse begins with the hard T-sound, tet, in the word ta’amah, “she experiences.” Here we see that she has […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:17 She straps on strength
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:17 17 She straps on strength and makes her arms strong. “Dresses” begins with the eighth letter of the Hebrew ABC’s, heth. It’s hagar, but not the same as the name of Abraham’s concubine Hagar, whose name begins with the letter heh, not heth (Genesis 16:1,3). Some translations […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:16 she plants a vineyard
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:16 16 She considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. “She considers” is the translation of our zayin-word, the seventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Zamamah can also mean “plan” (Lam. 2:17) or “determine” (Zech. 8:14,15). Here it depicts […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:15 While it is still night
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:15 15 She rises while it is still night and provides food for her family and portions for her servant girls. This verse is probably tied to the previous one, both by the sixth alphabet-letter, vav (which here is the word “and”) and by the connected […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:14 bread from afar
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:14 14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her bread from afar. The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is heh, our h-sound, and here it begins the most ordinary of words, hayata, “she is.” By using this for poetic reasons, Solomon opens up this verse to […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:10 willing hands
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:10 13 She picks out wool and flax and works with willing hands. Wool and flax were the elements used in Biblical times for spinning into cloth. Flax, a flowering plant, produces linen, and wool of course comes from sheep. The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet is […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:10 She brings him good
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:12 12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. This is the opposite of the many wicked women depicted throughout the book. In absolute contrast, the heroic wife brings her husband nothing but good. “Not harm” means that she does all of the […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:11 Her husband’s heart
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:11 11 Her husband’s heart trusts in her, and he lacks nothing of value. The word bataḥ is to trust or rely on something. Solomon takes the letter B (beth) and runs with it poetically throughout the entire first stich of the verse with the delightfully alliterative: bataḥ […]
God’s Wisdom for You – Proverbs 31:10 The Heroic Wife
GOD’S WISDOM FOR YOU PROVERBS 31:10 In the weeks to come, I will set aside Acts for a little while and turn to the final verses of Proverbs, often called “The Wife of Noble Character.” I have translated the title “The Heroic Wife.” It may be that due to my schedule, these devotions will be […]
God’s Word for You – Colossians 4:6 don’t forget the salt
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU COLOSSIANS 4:6 6 Let your speech always be in grace and seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you should answer everyone. “In grace” is often translated “graciously” or “full of grace.” This translation is more wooden and literal, “in (the sphere of) grace” (ἐν χάριτι). This could be […]
