King James Version
Proverbs 1:23 in the King James Version says “Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 1 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.”
Proverbs 1:23 · KJV
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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“Turn”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“you at my reproof”
H8433chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defense)
“behold I will pour out”
H5042to gush forth; figuratively, to utter (good or bad words); specifically, to emit (a foul odor)
“my spirit”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“unto you I will make known”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
“my words”
H1697a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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