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Proverbs 18:10

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous runs into it and is safe.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— The name of the LORD is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— The name of Jehovah is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— A tower of strength, is the Name of Yahweh, thereinto, runneth the righteous, and is safe.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— A tower of strength [is] the name of Jehovah, Into it the righteous runneth, and is set on high.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the just runneth to it, and shall be exalted.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— The Name of the Lorde is a strong tower: the righteous runneth vnto it, and is exalted.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— The name of the LORD [is] a a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous and the mighty run into it.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— The name of the Lord is of great strength; and the righteous running to it are exalted.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— The name of Yahweh [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
The name 8034
{8034} Prime
שֵׁם
shem
{shame}
A primitive word (perhaps rather from H7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare H8064); an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character.
of Yähwè יָהוֶה 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
[is] a strong 5797
{5797} Prime
עֹז
`oz
{oze}
From H5810; strength in various applications (force, security, majesty, praise).
tower: 4026
{4026} Prime
מִגְדָּל
migdal
{mig-dawl'}
From H1431; a tower (from its size or height); by analogy a rostrum; figuratively a (pyramidal) bed of flowers.
the righteous 6662
{6662} Prime
צַדִּיק
tsaddiyq
{tsad-deek'}
From H6663; just.
runneth 7323
{7323} Prime
רוּץ
ruwts
{roots}
A primitive root; to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
into it, and is safe. 7682
{7682} Prime
שָׂגַב
sagab
{saw-gab'}
A primitive root; to be (causatively make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication safe, strong; used literally and figuratively.
z8738
<8738> Grammar
Stem - Niphal (See H8833)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 1429
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Proverbs 18:10

_ _ name of the Lord — manifested perfections (Psalms 8:1; Psalms 20:2), as faithfulness, power, mercy, etc., on which men rely.

_ _ is safe — literally, “set on high, out of danger” (Psalms 18:2; Psalms 91:4).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

Proverbs 18:10

_ _ Here is, 1. God's sufficiency for the saints: His name is a strong tower for them, in which they may take rest when they are weary and take sanctuary when they are pursued, where they may be lifted up above their enemies and fortified against them. There is enough in God, and in the discoveries which he has made of himself to us, to make us easy at all times. The wealth laid up in this tower is enough to enrich them, to be a continual feast and a continuing treasure to them. The strength of this tower is enough to protect them; the name of the Lord is all that whereby he has made himself known as God, and our God, not only his titles and attributes, but his covenant and all the promises of it; these make up a tower, a strong tower, impenetrable, impregnable, for all God's people. 2. The saints' security in God. It is a strong tower to those who know how to make use of it as such. The righteous, by faith and prayer, devotion towards God and dependence on him, run into it, as their city of refuge. Having made sure their interest in God's name, they take the comfort and benefit of it; they go out of themselves, retire from the world, live above, dwell in God and God in them, and so they are safe, they think themselves so, and they shall find themselves so.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 18:10

The name — The Lord, as he hath revealed himself in his works, and in his word by his promises.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the LORD [is] a strong tower: the righteous runneth (g) into it, and is safe.

(g) He shows the refuge of the godly against all trouble.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
name:

Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I [am] the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect.
Exodus 3:13-15 And Moses said unto God, Behold, [when] I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What [is] his name? what shall I say unto them? ... And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this [is] my name for ever, and this [is] my memorial unto all generations.
Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by [the name of] God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.
Exodus 34:5-7 And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD. ... Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear [the guilty]; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth [generation].
Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name [is] Holy; I dwell in the high and holy [place], with him also [that is] of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Jeremiah 23:6 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this [is] his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
Revelation 1:8 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

a strong:

2 Samuel 22:3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: [he is] my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
2 Samuel 22:51 [He is] the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
Psalms 18:2 The LORD [is] my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, [and] my high tower.
Psalms 27:1 [[[A Psalm] of David.]] The LORD [is] my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD [is] the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 61:3-4 For thou hast been a shelter for me, [and] a strong tower from the enemy. ... I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
Psalms 91:2 I will say of the LORD, [He is] my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Psalms 144:2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and [he] in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
Isaiah 26:4 Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH [is] everlasting strength:

the righteous:

Genesis 32:11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, [and] the mother with the children.
Genesis 32:28-29 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. ... And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
1 Samuel 30:6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
2 Samuel 22:45-47 Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me. ... The LORD liveth; and blessed [be] my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 56:3-4 What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. ... In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

safe:
Heb. set aloft,
Psalms 91:14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Habakkuk 3:19 The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 17:1; 32:11, 28. Ex 3:13; 6:3; 34:5. 1S 30:6. 2S 22:3, 45, 51. Ps 18:2; 27:1; 56:3; 61:3; 91:2, 14; 144:2. Is 9:6; 26:4; 57:15. Jr 23:6. Hab 3:19. Mt 1:23. Rv 1:8.

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