Proverbs 8:23

I was set up [to reign] me'olam (from eternity), 1 from the beginning, or ever eretz was. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.

In Context

22Hashem possessed + 8:22 “By examining the total range of attestation of the verb Kuf Nun Heh in West Semitic we have been able to discover that the correct translation of the epithet ‘Kuf Nun Heh ARETZ’ is ‘Owner/Possessor of the land,’ not ‘Creator’ or ‘Begetter.’ The common assumption that Kuf Nun Heh in West Semitic means ‘to create’ is actually a scholarly heritage of interpretation related to a few select biblical passages going all the way back to the Septuagint translation, which has colored and shaped the way that Northwest Semitic inscriptions in our time have been read and understood” (from the article אל קנה ארץ: Creator, Begetter, or Owner of the Earth?) See https://www.religionofancientpalestine.com/?page_id=544 me in the reshit of His derech, 1 before His works of old. 1

24When there were no tehomot, 1 I was brought forth; 1 when there were no springs abounding with mayim. 1

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Cross References

Genesis 1:26And G-d said, Let Us make man in Our tzelem, after Our demut: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon ha'aretz (the earth). 1

Micah 5:1But thou, Beit-Lechem Ephratah, 1 though thou be little among the Alphei Yehudah (Thousands of Yehudah), 1 yet out of thee shall He + 5:1 Moshiach come forth unto Me + 5:1 Hashem 1 that is to be Moshel Yisroel; 1 whose goings forth + 5:1 (i.e. origins) have been mikedem (from everlasting), + 5:1 See Hab 1:12 1 mimei olam (from the days of eternity). 1

John 17:5And now give me kavod, Avi, along with Yourself with the kavod which I was having with You before HaOlam came to be. + 17:5 Yn 1:1-3; Prov 8:30; 30:4

Ephesians 1:10For a pekudat Hashem (stewardship of G-d), a plan for the fullness of time, gathering up all things in Moshiach, both the things in Shomayim and the things on Ha'Aretz in Him.

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 8:23-32

Wisdom Eternal and Divine. 22 The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. 27 When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when… Read the whole commentary →

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