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Let your fountainיְהִי מְקוֹרְךָbeיְהִיblessed,בָרוּךְandוּrejoiceשְׂמַחin the wifeמֵאֵשֶׁתof your youth,נְעוּרֶךָ
Proverbs 5:18
Study it in the app“Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,”
The son is told: rejoice in the wife of your youthDating and Marriage
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 5:18, word by word
- Let your fountainיְהִיyehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “yehi” appears- Let your fountainמְקוֹרְmekor
spring
The place where water wells up, and so also the source of life.
Where else “mekor” appears- blessedבָרוּךְvaruch
bless
God gives good things: life, children, harvests.
Where else “varuch” appears- rejoiceשְׂמַחsemach
rejoice
To feel glad and show it, above all at the feast before YHWH.
Where else “semach” appears- in the wifeאֵשֶׁתeshet
wife
Literally "his woman": the one married to him.
Where else “eshet” appears- of your youthנְעוּרֶneure
youth
Youth: the time of being young.
Where else “neure” appears
The context
17Let them be for yourself alone, and not for strangers with you.
18 · This verse (above)
19a loving doe and a graceful mountain goat; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; in her love may you be lost always.