Proverbs 4:3
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English Standard Version
When I was a son with my father, tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,

New American Standard Bible
When I was a son to my father, Tender and the only son in the sight of my mother,

King James Bible
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When I was a son with my father, tender and precious to my mother,

International Standard Version
When I was a son to my father, not yet strong and an only son to my mother,

NET Bible
When I was a son to my father, a tender only child before my mother,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For I have been a delightful son to my father and an only child in the presence of my mother.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When I was a boy [learning] from my father, when I was a tender and only child of my mother,

King James 2000 Bible
For I was my father's son, tender and the only one in the sight of my mother.

American King James Version
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

American Standard Version
For I was a son unto my father, Tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I also was my father's son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:

Darby Bible Translation
For I was a son unto my father, tender and an only one in the sight of my mother.

English Revised Version
For I was a son unto my father, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Webster's Bible Translation
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

World English Bible
For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.

Young's Literal Translation
For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.
Lexicon
For I was my father's
'ab  (awb)
father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application) -- chief, (fore-)father(-less), patrimony, principal. Compare names in Abi-.
son
ben  (bane)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc.
tender
rak  (rak)
tender; by implication, weak -- faint(-hearted), soft, tender (-hearted), one), weak.
and only
yachiyd  (yaw-kheed')
united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced) -- darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
beloved in the sight
paniym  (paw-neem')
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
of my mother
'em  (ame)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively) -- dam, mother, parting.
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