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Proverbs
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proverbs
English
Book of Proverbs Proverbs (Bible)
Alternative forms
en Prov.
Pronunciation
en
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Proverbs.wav Southern England
Proper noun
sp ~ Proverb
en Q4579A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
en Greg Hinnant May I Recommend the Proverbs? Precious Pearls from the Proverbs Creation House 2005 6 1-59185-900-X The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.
en Peter T.H. Hatton Unity and Diversity in Proverbs Contradiction in the Book of Proverbs: The Deep Waters of Counsel Society for Old Testament Study Series w:Ashgate Publishing 2008 47 978-0-7546-6304-1 Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.
Derived terms
en Proverbs woman
Translations
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Afrikaans: af Spreuke
Albanian: sq Fjalët e urta
Arabic: ar اَلْأَمْثَال
Armenian: hy Առակաց p
Asturian: ast Proverbios
Basque: eu Esaera Zaharrak p
Bengali: bn প্রবচন
Breton: br Krennlavarioù m
Burmese: my သုတ္တံကျမ်း
Catalan: ca Proverbis
Cebuano: ceb Mga Panultihon
Chinese:
Cantonese: yue 箴言 zam1 jin4
Eastern Min: cdo 箴言 Cĭng-ngiòng
Hakka: hak 箴言 Chṳ̂m-ngièn
Hokkien: nan-hbl 箴言 Chim-giân
Mandarin: cmn 箴言 Zhēnyán
Comorian:
Ngazidja Comorian: zdj Mithali
Corsican: co Pruvèrbii
Czech: cs Přísloví m-p
Danish: da Ordsprogene m-p
Dutch: nl Spreuken
Estonian: et Õpetussõnad p
Faroese: fo Orðtøk Sálomons m
Finnish: fi Sananlaskut
French: fr Proverbes
Frisian:
West Frisian: fy Spreuken p
Georgian: ka იგავნი სოლომონისა p
German: de Sprüche m-p
Greek: el Παροιμίες
Ancient Greek: grc Παροιμίαι m-p
Greenlandic: kl Ussatit
Gujarati: gu નીતિવચનો
Hawaiian: haw Solomona, haw Nā ʻŌlelo Akamai A Solomona
Hindi: hi नीतिवचन m
Hungarian: hu A példabeszédek könyve
Icelandic: is Orðskviðirnir
Ido: io Proverbium m-p
Indonesian: id Amsal
Irish: ga Leabhar na Seanfhocal m, ga Seanfhocail m-p
Italian: it Proverbi m-p
Japanese: ja 箴言 しんげん, Shingen
Kannada: kn ಙ್ಞಾನೋಕ್ತಿಗಳು
Kazakh: kk Нақыл сөздер
Korean: ko ^잠언(箴言)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: ckb پەندەکانی سلێمان
Latin: la Proverbia m-p
Latvian: lv Pamācības f-p
Lavukaleve: lvk Proverbs
Limburgish: li Spreuke
Lithuanian: lt Patarlių knyga f
Lutuv: clt Phungthluvbie
Luxembourgish: lb Sprachwierder
Malay: ms Amsal
Malayalam: ml സദൃശ്യവാക്യങ്ങൾ
Maltese: mt Ktieb il-Qwiel
Manx: gv Raaghyn Creeney
Māori: mi Ngā Whakataukī
Marathi: mr नीतिसूत्रे
Mirandese: mwl Probérbios
Mongolian: mn Сургаалт Үгс
Neapolitan: nap Pruverbi
Nepali: ne हितोपदेश
Norwegian: no Salomos Ordtøke n-p, no Ordspråkene m-p
Odia: or ହିତୋପଦେଶ
Persian: fa امثال
Polish: pl Księga Przysłów f
Portuguese: pt Provérbios m
Punjabi: pa ਕਹਾਉਤਾਂ
Romanian: ro Proverbe m-p
Russian: ru Кни́га При́тчей Соломо́новых f, ru При́тчи f-p
Scots: sco Proverbs
Scottish Gaelic: gd Gnàth-fhacail m-p
Serbo-Croatian: sh Priče Solomunove
Sinhalese: si හිතෝපදේශ
Slovak: sk Príslovia m-p
Slovene: sl Pregovori
Spanish: es Proverbios
Swahili: sw Mithali
Swedish: sv Ordspråksboken c
Tagalog: tl Kawikaan, tl Mga Kawikaan m-p
Tamil: ta நீதிமொழிகள்
Telugu: te సామెతలు
Thai: th สุภาษิต
Tumbuka: tum Zintharika
Turkish: tr Süleyman'ın Özdeyişleri
Turkmen: tk Süleýmanyň pähimleri
Urdu: ur امثال
Waray-Waray: war Mga Darahunon
Welsh: cy Diarhebion m
Zealandic: zea Spreuken