DEFINITIONS FULL MEASURE STUDY OF PROVERBS

Full Measure Study of the Book Of Proverbs

Definitions

The Different Iterations/Layers of Wisdom

Knowledge: The facts the truth

Wisdom: How to apply knowledge.               

Understanding: to be prudent, circumspect, to look upon with insight.

God big picture, deep comprehension. The goal of knowledge and wisdom

Instruction: Reprove, correction, teaching doctrine, chastisement

Learning: Doctrine, accumulation of knowledge, remembered and retrievable upon demand

Discernment: To distinguish, to separate out by diligent search to examine

Prudence: The Practice of making fine-drawn distinctions. Extreme niceness, or refinement of discrimination, intricacy, complexity.  Abigail (Samuel 25)

Discretion: Obscure, delicate distinction, difficult to understand

Wise Counsel: guidance, good advice

Subtilty: willy, craftiness, guile,

Judgment: to weigh in the balance. Order, ordinance, the act of deciding a case. mispat

Justice: righteous judgment. Right cause.

Equity: Sweet agreement, sweet accord

Law: direction, instruction, prophetic teaching, manner

Proverb: sentences of ethical wisdom, ethical maxims; parable

Interpretation: Mocking poem; satire

Dark sayings: riddle, difficult question, parable, enigmatic saying or question, perplexing saying or question

Verbs/Actions: How One Should Respond to Wisdom; Concerning Wisdom in all its layers and intricacies:

To Consider: Ponder, have insight and comprehension

to Understand: Observe mark, heed distinguish

To Declare: Speak aloud, preach

To Perceive: Regard, discern

To Receive: Take away

To Cry After: Read, call, invite, preach, read aloud, summon, name, call out and recite

To Hear: to use the facility of hearing with the ear, with attention, or interest to listen

Categories of People According to Their Response to Wisdom

Young and inexperienced, the naïve

Learned, who want to increase in learning

The Simple: Silly, naïve

A wise person: Skillful in applying knowledge and principles to prosper

A person of Understanding: Person who has the meaning, the insight

A fool: Hebrew word (evil) one who despises wisdom

Sinner: One reckoned as an offender (repeated offense) counted a guilty

The Froward: The person who consistently, disobeys and is oppositional.

Evil: bad, disagreeable, malignant, displeasing, unethical, injurious, sad, unhappy, person of bad, malignant, injurious, miserable, distressful, unethical thoughts, deeds, actions.

Those Greedy for Gain: to cut off, break off, gain by unrighteous violence, get, finish, be covetous, be e. To violently make a gain of.