Proverbs 16:24
WEB
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
BSB
Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.
KJV
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H6688
n-m — comb of honey
Derivation: from 6687;
comb of honey (from dripping)
KJV: honeycomb.
n.m — comb
צוּף n.m. (honey-)comb (as exuding honey)
H1706
n-m — honey, stickiness, syrup
Derivation: from an unused root meaning to be gummy;
honey (from its stickiness); by analogy, syrup
KJV: honey(-comb).
n.m — honey
דְּבַשׁ 64 n.m. honey
H561
n-m — something said
Derivation: from 559;
something said
KJV: answer, × appointed unto him, saying, speech, word.
n.m — utterance
אֹמֶר n.m. utterance, speech, word, only poet., & exalted style
H5278
n-m — agreeableness, delight, suitableness, splendor, grace
Derivation: from 5276;
agreeableness, i.e. delight, suitableness, splendor or grace
KJV: beauty, pleasant(-ness).
n.m — delightfulness
נֹ֫עַם n.m. ψ 90:17 delightfulness, pleasantness (Ecclus נועם תירוש 32:6);—נ׳ abs. Zc 11:7 + 4 t.; cstr. ψ 27:4 90:17;—
1. delightfulness of י׳: contemplated in temple ψ 27:4, shewn in his favour, וִיהִי נ׳ אדני ... עָלֵינוּ 90:17.
2. name of one of two symbol. staves Zc 11:7, 10.
3. pleasantness, as defining genit.: דַרְכֵי־נ׳ Pr 3:17; אִמְרֵי־נ׳ 15:26 16:24.
H4966
a — sweet
Derivation: or מָתוּק; from 4985;
sweet
KJV: sweet(-er, -ness).
adj — sweet
מָתוֹק adj. sweet, and n.[m.] sweetness
H5315
n-f — breathing creature, animal, vitality
Derivation: from 5314;
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, × dead(-ly), desire, × (dis-) contented, × fish, ghost, greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, × jeopardy of) life (× in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, slay, soul, tablet, they, thing, (× she) will, × would have it.
n.f — soul
נֶ֫פֶשׁ 756 n.f. soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, appetite, emotion, and passion
1. = that which breathes, the breathing substance or being
2. The נפשׁ becomes a living being
3. The נפשׁ is specif.
4. The נפשׁ as the essential of man stands for the man himself
5. נפשׁ = seat of the appetites, in all periods (46 t.)
6. נ׳ = seat of emotions and passions
7. נפשׁ is used occasionally for mental acts
8. נפשׁ for acts of the will is dub.
9. נפשׁ = character is still more dub.
10. נ׳ in D
H4832
n-m — curative, medicine, cure, deliverance, placidity
Derivation: from 7495;
properly, curative, i.e. literally (concretely) a medicine, or (abstractly) a cure; figuratively (concretely) deliverance, or (abstractly) placidity
KJV: (in-)cure(-able), healing(-lth), remedy, sound, wholesome, yielding.
n.m — healing
מַרְפֵּא, מַרְפֵּה n.m. healing, cure, health (usu. fig.)
H6106
n-f — bone, strong, body, substance, selfsame
Derivation: from 6105;
a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsame
KJV: body, bone, × life, (self-) same, strength, × very.
n.f — bone
עֶ֫צֶם 125 n.f. bone, substance, self
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Verse 24
Proverbs 16:24
The pleasant words here commended must be those which the heart of the wise teaches, and adds learning to (Pro 16:23), words of seasonable advice, instruction, and comfort, words taken from God's word, for that is it which Solomon had learned from his father to account sweeter than honey and the honey-comb, Psa 19:10. These words, to those that know how to relish them, 1. Are pleasant. They are like the honey-comb, sweet to the soul, which tastes in them that the Lord is gracious; nothing more grateful and agreeable to the new man than the word of God, and those words which are borrowed from it, Psa 119:103. 2. They are wholesome. Many things are pleasant that are not profitable, but these pleasant words are health to the bones, to the inward man, as well as sweet to the soul. They make the bones, which sin has broken and put out of joint, to rejoice. The bones are the strength of the body; and the good word of God is a means of spiritual strength, curing the diseases that weaken us.
Cross-references: Prov 16:23 · Ps 19:10 · Ps 119:103