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Understand,הָבִינוּsimple ones,פְתָאיִםshrewdness;עָרְמָהand,וּsenseless ones,כְסִילִיםunderstandהָבִינוּwith your heart.לֵב
Proverbs 8:5
Study it in the app“Understand, simple ones, shrewdness; and, senseless ones, understand with your heart.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 8:5, word by word
- Understandהָבִינוּhavinu
understand
To understand, realize.
Where else “havinu” appears- simple onesפְתָאיִםfetayim
simple, naive
Simple, naive: a person without experience, easily persuaded, who still has to learn.
Where else “fetayim” appears- shrewdnessעָרְמָהarma
shrewdness
Knowing how to look out for oneself, wise caution.
Where else “arma” appears- senseless onesכְסִילִיםchesilim
senseless, fool
Fool: not someone who knows little, but someone who despises wisdom and trusts in himself.
Where else “chesilim” appears- with your heartלֵבlev
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lev” appears
The context
4“To you, men, I call, and my voice goes to the children of man.
5 · This verse (above)
6Listen, for noble things I will speak, and the opening of my lips will be uprightness.