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Proverbs 15:17

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Better is a dish of vegetables where love is Than a fattened ox [served] with hatred.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is, Than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred with it.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Better is a meal of herbs where love is, than a fatted ox and hatred therewith.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Better is an allowance of herbs, and love, there, than a fatted ox, and hatred therewith.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Better [is] an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— It is better to be invited to herbs with love, than to a fatted calf with hatred.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Better is a dinner of greene herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe and hatred therewith.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Better [is] a dinner of herbes where loue is, then a stalled oxe, and hatred therewith.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Better is a dinner of vegetables where love is than fatted steer and hatred with it.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Better is an entertainment of herbs with friendliness and kindness, than a feast of calves, with enmity.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Better [is] a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Better 2896
{2896} Prime
טוֹב
towb
{tobe}
From H2895; good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well).
[is] a dinner 737
{0737} Prime
אֲרֻחָה
'aruchah
{ar-oo-khaw'}
Feminine passive participle of H0732 (in the sense of appointing); a ration of food.
of herbs 3419
{3419} Prime
יָרָק
yaraq
{yaw-rawk'}
From the same as H3418; properly green; concretely a vegetable.
where x8033
(8033) Complement
שָׁם
sham
{shawm}
A primitive particle (rather from the relative H0834); there (transfered to time) then; often thither, or thence.
love 160
{0160} Prime
אַהֲבָה
'ahabah
{a-hab-aw'}
Feminine of H0158 and meaning the same.
is, than a stalled 75
{0075} Prime
אָבַס
'abac
{aw-bas'}
A primitive root; to fodder.
z8803
<8803> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815)
Count - 1415
ox 7794
{7794} Prime
שׁוֹר
showr
{shore}
From H7788; a bullock (as a traveller). wall used by mistake for H7791.
x4480
(4480) Complement
מִן
min
{min}
For H4482; properly a part of; hence (prepositionally), from or out of in many senses.
and hatred 8135
{8135} Prime
שִׂנְאָה
sin'ah
{sin-aw'}
From H8130; hate.
therewith.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Proverbs 15:17

_ _ dinner — or, “allowance” (2 Kings 25:30).

_ _ of herbs — and that the plainest.

_ _ and hatred — (compare Proverbs 10:12, Proverbs 10:18).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 15:16-17.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance

Proverbs 17:1 Better [is] a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than an house full of sacrifices [with] strife.
Proverbs 21:19 [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Psalms 133:1-3 [[A Song of degrees of David.]] Behold, how good and how pleasant [it is] for brethren to dwell together in unity! ... As the dew of Hermon, [and as the dew] that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the LORD commanded the blessing, [even] life for evermore.
Philippians 2:1 If [there be] therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
1 John 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
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Ps 133:1. Pv 17:1; 21:19. Php 2:1. 1Jn 4:16.

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