Proverbs 2:2
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Apply Applying Attend Attention Attentive Cause Discernment Ear Gives Heart Incline Making Turn Turned Turning Understanding Wisdom
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Apply Applying Attend Attention Attentive Cause Discernment Ear Gives Heart Incline Making Turn Turned Turning Understanding Wisdom
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English Standard Version
making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;

New American Standard Bible
Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

King James Bible
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
listening closely to wisdom and directing your heart to understanding;

International Standard Version
making your ear attentive to wisdom, and turning your heart to understanding—

NET Bible
by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you will incline your ear to wisdom and turn your heart to understanding

GOD'S WORD® Translation
if you pay close attention to wisdom, and let your mind reach for understanding,

King James 2000 Bible
So that you incline your ear unto wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

American King James Version
So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

American Standard Version
So as to incline thine ear unto wisdom, And apply thy heart to understanding;

Douay-Rheims Bible
That thy ear may hearken to wisdom: Incline thy heart to know prudence:

Darby Bible Translation
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and thou apply thy heart to understanding;

English Revised Version
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;

Webster's Bible Translation
So that thou incline thy ear to wisdom, and apply thy heart to understanding;

World English Bible
So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

Young's Literal Translation
To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding,
Lexicon
So that thou incline
qashab  (kaw-shab')
to prick up the ears, i.e. hearken -- attend, (cause to) hear(-ken), give heed, incline, mark (well), regard.
thine ear
'ozen  (o'-zen)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man) -- + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
unto wisdom
chokmah  (khok-maw')
wisdom (in a good sense) -- skilful, wisdom, wisely, wit.
and apply
natah  (naw-taw')
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
thine heart
leb  (labe)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect
to understanding
tabuwn  (taw-boon')
intelligence; by implication, an argument; by extension, caprice -- discretion, reason, skilfulness, understanding, wisdom.
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