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Proverbs 8:26

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8:26 before he made the earth and its fields, 1 

or the beginning 2  of the dust of the world.

Proverbs 8:31

Context

8:31 rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, 3 

and delighting 4  in its people. 5 

1 tn Heb “open places.”

2 tn Here רֹאשׁ (rosh) means “beginning” with reference to time (BDB 911 s.v. 4.b).

3 tn The two words are synonymous in general and so could be taken to express a superlative idea – the “whole world” (cf. NIV, NCV). But תֵּבֵל (tevel) also means the inhabited world, and so the construct may be interpreted as a partitive genitive.

4 tn Heb “and my delights” [were] with/in.”

5 tn Heb “the sons of man.”



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