This translation is from the New Jerusalem Bible. Other translations are available here. Information about the original Hebrew meaning of what seem to be the key words is provided immediately below the scriptural text.
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Listen, my children, to a father's instruction; pay attention, and learn what understanding is. 2What I am offering you is sound doctrine: do not forsake my teaching.
3I too was once a child with a father, in my mother's eyes a tender child, unique. 4This was what he used to teach me, 'Let your heart treasure what I have to say, keep my principles and you will live; 5acquire wisdom, acquire understanding, never forget her, never deviate from my words. 6Do not desert her, she will keep you safe; love her, she will watch over you. 7The first principle of wisdom is: acquire wisdom; at the cost of all you have, acquire understanding! 8Hold her close, and she will make you great; embrace her, and she will be your pride; 9she will provide a graceful garland for your head, bestow a crown of honour on you.'
10Listen, my child, take my words to heart, and the years of your life will be multiplied.
11I have educated you in the ways of wisdom, I have guided you along the path of honesty.
12When you walk, your going will be unhindered, if you run, you will not stumble.
13 Hold fast to discipline, never let her go, keep your eyes on her, she is your life.
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listen = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ Blue Letter Bible listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer
son = בֵּן = bēn Blue Letter Bible son, grandson, child, member of a group; male child; young men; children (pl. - male and female); foster son; disciple; one related to a time, place, emotion, condition, status; term of kindliness or endearment; expression of intimate and gracious relation
father = אָב = 'āḇ Blue Letter Bible father of an individual; God as father of his people; head or founder of a household, group, family, or clan; ancestor; originator or patron of a class, profession, or art; producer, generator (fig.); author; generator; figure of benevolence and protection (fig.);bringer up, nourisher; master; teacher; term of respect and honour; ruler or chief (spec.); principal
instruction = מוּסָר = muwcar Blue Letter Bible discipline, chastening, correction; reproof, warning or instruction; doctrine, instruction, rebuke; admonition; restraint
pay attention = קָשַׁב = qashab Blue Letter Bible to hear, be attentive, heed, incline (of ears), attend (of ears), hearken, pay attention, listen; give attention; to prick up the ears; regard
learn =יָדַע= yāḏaʿ Blue Letter Bible perceive and see, find out and discern; discriminate, distinguish; know by experience; recognize; be acquainted with; to know (a person carnally); to know how, be skillful in; to have knowledge, be wise; be made known, be or become known, be revealed; be instructed; privy to; seeing; observe with the eyes; be aware of; get to know, discover; turn the mind to, care about, see about
understanding = בִּינָה = bînâ Blue Letter Bible discernment; knowledge; insight; wisdom; intelligence; skill
offer = נָתַן = nāṯan Blue Letter Bible to give, bestow, grant; consecrate, devote, dedicate; entrust, give over, deliver up; yield, produce; be (healed); pour; print; teach; to apply the heart to; to constitute, to make a thing like or similar to; cause to receive
sound = טוֹב = ṭôḇ Blue Letter Bible good, pleasant, agreeable; excellent; rich, valuable in estimation; appropriate, becoming; happy, prosperous, kind, benign; right (ethical); welfare, prosperity, happiness; good things (collective)
good, benefit; moral good; blessing of good things
doctrine = לֶקַח = leqaḥ Blue Letter Bible learning, teaching, insight; instruction (obj);teaching (thing taught); teaching-power; persuasiveness; something received, i.e. (mentally) instruction (whether on the part of the teacher or hearer); doctrine, learning, fair speech
forsake = עָזַב = ʿāzaḇ Blue Letter Bible to leave, loose, forsake; depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone; abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatize; let loose, set free, let go, free; to be deserted; fail; relinquish, leave destitute; to loosen band; to restore, repair; fortify; help
teaching = תּוֹרָה = tôrâ Blue Letter Bible law; instruction, direction (human or divine); body of prophetic teaching; instruction in Messianic age; body of legal directives; custom, manner; the Deuteronomic or Mosaic Law; precept; statute; doctrine
teach = יָרָה = yarah Blue Letter Bible point out; show; direct, teach, instruct; throw, shoot, cast, pour; to flow as water (i.e. to rain); point out (as if by aiming the finger); direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew; lay foundations; to sprinkle, water; to send out the hand
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אָמַר = 'āmar Blue Letter Bible certify; declare; command, promise, to intend; avow, avouch; bear forth, bring to light; to speak, utter; say in one's heart, think
heart= לֵב = lēḇ Blue Letter Bible inner man, mind, will, understanding; midst; soul; mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory; inclination, resolution, determination (of will); conscience; seat of appetites, emotions, passions, courage; feelings, the will and even the intellect; the centre of anything
treasure = תָּמַךְ = tāmaḵ Blue Letter Bible grasp, hold, support, attain, lay hold of; hold up, support; keep; take hold of each other; maintain, retain, stay (up); hold together, adhere
keep = שָׁמַר = šāmar Blue Letter Bible keep, guard, observe, give heed; retain, treasure up (in memory); preserve; attend to
acquire = קָנָה = qānâ Blue Letter Bible get, acquire, create, buy, possess; procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
acquire = קָנָה = qānâ Blue Letter Bible get, acquire, create, buy, possess; procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
understanding = בִּינָה = bînâ Blue Letter Bible discernment; knowledge; insight; wisdom; intelligence; skill
forget = שָׁכַח = šāḵaḥ Blue Letter Bible forget, ignore; cease to care; wither; be oblivious of
deviate= נָטָה = natah Blue Letter Bible to stretch out, extend, spread out, pitch, turn, pervert, incline, bend, bow; to turn aside, incline, decline, bend down; hold out; incline, influence; outstretched; wrest, cause to yield; spread oneself; seduce
words = אֵמֶר = 'ēmer Blue Letter Bible utterance, speech, word, saying, promise; command, mandate; something said; appointed unto him; saying, speech, word
desert = עָזַב = ʿāzaḇ Blue Letter Bible to leave, loose, forsake; depart from, leave behind, leave, let alone; abandon, forsake, neglect, apostatize; let loose, set free, let go, free; to be deserted; fail; relinquish, leave destitute; to loosen band; to restore, repair; fortify; help
love = אָהַב = 'ahab Blue Letter Bible human love for another, includes family, and sexual; act of being a friend; have affection for (sexually or otherwise); desire, breathe after; delight; be verdant, germinate
first = רֵאשִׁית = rē'šîṯ Blue Letter Bible first, beginning, best, chief; choicest; the first in place, time, order or rank (specifically, a firstfruit); chief(-est); principal thing; first of its kind
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
acquire = קָנָה = qānâ Blue Letter Bible get, acquire, create, buy, possess; procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
all = כֹּל = kol Blue Letter Bible the whole; any, each, every, anything; totality, everything, of all kinds, every sort
acquire = קִנְיָן = qinyān Blue Letter Bible thing acquired, thing acquired by purchase; acquisition, possession, purchased property; wealth; substance; creatures; substance
understanding = בִּינָה = bînâ Blue Letter Bible discernment; knowledge; insight; wisdom; intelligence; skill
Hold her close = סָלַל = sālal Blue Letter Bible to lift up, cast up; exalt; esteem highly, prize; to mound up (especially a turnpike); extol; gather into a heap; embank
embrace = חָבַק = ḥāḇaq Blue Letter Bible embrace, clasp
listen = שָׁמַע = šāmaʿ Blue Letter Bible listen to, obey; perceive by ear; hear with attention or interest; give heed; consent, agree; yield to; be obedient; hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.); hear and answer
child = בֵּן = bēn Blue Letter Bible son, grandson, child, member of a group; male child; young men; children (pl. - male and female); foster son; disciple; one related to a time, place, emotion, condition, status; term of kindliness or endearment; expression of intimate and gracious relation
take = לָקַח = lāqaḥ Blue Letter Bible to take, get, fetch, lay hold of, seize, receive, acquire; to take and carry along; to take from, take out of, take, carry away, take away; to take (in the widest variety of applications)
words = אֵמֶר = 'ēmer Blue Letter Bible utterance, speech, word, saying, promise; command, mandate; something said; appointed unto him; saying, speech, word
educated = יָרָה = yarah Blue Letter Bible point out; show; direct, teach, instruct; throw, shoot, cast, pour; to flow as water (i.e. to rain); point out (as if by aiming the finger); direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew; lay foundations; to sprinkle, water; to send out the hand
way = דֶּרֶךְ = dereḵ Blue Letter Bible way, road, distance, journey, manner; path; mode; habit, way; course of life; mode of action
wisdom = חָכְמָה = ḥāḵmâ Blue Letter Bible a divine attribute or energy; cleverness; shrewdness; skill; prudence; dexterity; wit; piety towards God
guided = דָּרַךְ = dāraḵ Blue Letter Bible tread, bend, lead, march; cause to go, lead, march, tread; trample, tread a press or threshing floor
paths = מַעְגָּל = maʿgāl Blue Letter Bible entrenchment; track; circumvallation; rampart; path, trench, way; wagon-track; rut
honesty = יֹשֶׁר = yōšer Blue Letter Bible straightness, uprightness; evenness (moral implications); equity, meet, right; what is right, what is due; what ought to be done; just and meet
walk = יָלַךְ = yālaḵ Blue Letter Bible go, walk, come; lead, bring, lead away, carry, cause to walk; journey; proceed
going = צַעַד = ṣaʿaḏ Blue Letter Bible step, pace, stride; course of life; regular step
[]hindered = יָצַר = yāṣar Blue Letter Bible bind, be distressed, be in distress, be cramped, be narrow, be scant, be in straits, make narrow, cause distress, besiege; be straitened (in straits), be vexed; grieved
run = רוּץ = rûṣ Blue Letter Bible run swiftly, dart; bring or move quickly, hurry; rush, bring hastily, cause to hasten
stumble = כָּשַׁל = kāšal Blue Letter Bible stumble, stagger, totter; be tottering, be feeble; bring injury or ruin to, overthrow; bereave; falter; shaking of the knees; cause to fail; be seduced;
Hold fast = חָזַק = ḥāzaq Blue Letter Bible strengthen, prevail, harden, be strong, become strong, be courageous, be firm, grow firm, be resolute; to make strong; to restore to strength, give strength; sustain, encourage; make bold;repair; have or take or keep hold of, retain, hold up, sustain, support; to hold, contain; put forth strength, use one's strength; withstand; hold strongly with; strengthen oneself; causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify; recovery from illness; courageous, confident; devote oneself to; be urgent, pressing; tie fast, bind
discipline = מוּסָר = muwcar Blue Letter Bible discipline, chastening, correction; reproof, warning or instruction; doctrine, instruction, rebuke; admonition; restraint
let [] go = רָפָה = rāp̄â Blue Letter Bible sink, relax, sink down, let drop, be disheartened; abandon, refrain, forsake; let alone, be quiet; show oneself slack; abate, cease; cast down; let fall; desist
keep your eyes on = נָצַר = nāṣar Blue Letter Bible watch over; observe, guard with fidelity; kept close, be blockaded; protect, maintain, obey; preserve
life = חַי = ḥay Blue Letter Bible living, alive; green (of vegetation); flowing, fresh (of water); lively, active (of man); reviving (of the springtime); appetite; raw; springing; vigorous; prosperity, welfare; living one, fountain of life; community
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