Proverbs 1:6
To understand a mashal (proverb), and the melitzah (enigma); 1 the divrei chachamim, and their chidot (riddles). 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
In Context
7The Yirat Hashem is the reshit da'as, 1 but fools despise chochmah and musar. 1
Cross References
Psalms 49:4My mouth shall speak chochmot; 1 and the meditation of my lev tevunot (understanding). 1
Ecclesiastes 12:11Divrei chachamim are like goads, and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings that are given by Ro'eh Echad (One Shepherd).
Matthew 13:34All these things Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach spoke in meshalim to the multitudes. And apart from meshalim Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach did not speak to them:
Mark 4:11And he was saying to them, To you the raz (secret) of the Malchut Hashem has been given. But to the outsiders, everything remains in meshalim,
Acts 8:30And having run, Philippos heard him reading Yeshayah HaNavi, and Philippos said, So do you have binah of what you are reading?
2 Peter 3:16As also in all his iggrot speaking in them concerning these things, in which are some things lomdish (intricate and complicated to understand), which those unstable and without da'as, twist, as also the other Kitvei Hakodesh, to their own churban (destruction).
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 1:2-7
Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use of by the Holy Ghost for making known the mind of God to us, writing as moved by the finger of God (so the Spirit of God is called), and that is Solomon; through his hand came this book of Scripture and the two that follow it, Ecclesiastes and Canticles, a sermon and a song. Some think he wrote Canticles when he was very young, Proverbs in the midst of his days, and Ecclesiastes when he was old. In the title of his… Read the whole commentary →