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Proverbs 4:22

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— For they are life to those who find them And health to all their body.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— For they are life unto those that find them, And health to all their flesh.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— For they [are] life to those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— For, life, they are, to them who find them,—and, to every part of one's flesh, they bring healing.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— For life they [are] to those finding them, And to all their flesh healing.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— For they are life vnto those that find them, and health vnto all their flesh.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— For they are life vnto [those] that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— For they are life to him who finds them, and health to all his flesh.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— For they are life to those that find them, and health to all [their] flesh.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
For x3588
(3588) Complement
כִּי
kiy
{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
they x1992
(1992) Complement
הֵם
hem
{haym}
Masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic).
[are] life 2416
{2416} Prime
חַי
chay
{khah'-ee}
From H2421; alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively.
unto those that find 4672
{4672} Prime
מָצָא
matsa'
{maw-tsaw'}
A primitive root; properly to come forth to, that is, appear or exist; transitively to attain, that is, find or acquire; figuratively to occur, meet or be present.
z8802
<8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Active (See H8814)
Count - 5386
them, and health 4832
{4832} Prime
מַרְפֵּא
marpe'
{mar-pay'}
From H7495; properly curative, that is, literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity.
to all x3605
(3605) Complement
כֹּל
kol
{kole}
From H3634; properly the whole; hence all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense).
their flesh. 1320
{1320} Prime
בָּשָׂר
basar
{baw-sawr'}
From H1319; flesh (from its freshness); by extension body, person; also (by euphemism) the pudenda of a man.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 4:20-22.


Proverbs 4:22

_ _ health ... flesh — by preserving from vices destructive of health.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 4:20-27.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Proverbs 4:22

For they [are] life unto those that find them, and health to all their (i) flesh.

(i) That is, they will have health of body: under which all other blessings promised in the law are contained.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
life:

Proverbs 4:4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Proverbs 4:10 Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

health:
Heb. medicine,
Proverbs 3:8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
*marg.
Proverbs 12:18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
Jeremiah 33:6 Behold, I will bring it health and cure, and I will cure them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth.
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Pv 3:8; 4:4, 10; 12:18. Jr 33:6.

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