Proverbs 17:22
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Body Bone Bones Broken Cheerful Crushed Downcast Dries Drieth Dry Glad Good Healing Healthy Heart Joyful Makes Medicine Merry Rejoicing Smitten Spirit
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Body Bone Bones Broken Cheerful Crushed Downcast Dries Drieth Dry Glad Good Healing Healthy Heart Joyful Makes Medicine Merry Rejoicing Smitten Spirit
Parallel Verses
English Standard Version
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

New American Standard Bible
A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

King James Bible
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

International Standard Version
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit drains one's strength.

NET Bible
A cheerful heart brings good healing, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A merry heart improves the body and a depressed spirit dries the bones.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A joyful heart is good medicine, but depression drains one's strength.

King James 2000 Bible
A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

American King James Version
A merry heart does good like a medicine: but a broken spirit dries the bones.

American Standard Version
A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A joyful mind maketh age flourishing: a sorrowful spirit drieth up the bones.

Darby Bible Translation
A joyful heart promoteth healing; but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

English Revised Version
A merry heart is a good medicine: but a broken spirit drieth up the bones.

Webster's Bible Translation
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

World English Bible
A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Young's Literal Translation
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.
Lexicon
A merry
sameach  (saw-may'-akh)
blithe or gleeful -- (be) glad, joyful, (making) merry(-hearted), -ily), rejoice(-ing).
heart
leb  (labe)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect
doeth good
yatab  (yaw-tab')
to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)
like a medicine
gehah  (gay-haw')
a cure -- medicine.
but a broken
nake'  (naw-kay')
smitten, i.e. (figuratively) afflicted -- broken, stricken, wounded.
spirit
ruwach  (roo'-akh)
wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being
drieth
yabesh  (yaw-bashe')
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
the bones
gerem  (gheh'-rem)
a bone (as the skeleton of the body); hence, self, i.e. (figuratively) very -- bone, strong, top.
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