Passage Research
Proverbs 12 — Sermon Preparation
Proverbs comparing those who love discipline with those who hate correction, honoring the virtuous wife, and contrasting the diligent and the sluggard. Below is a research summary for Proverbs 12, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 20
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Proverbs 12 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַדִּיק | tsaddîyq | H6662 | 8 | just |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 7 | wrong, bad |
| לֵב | lêb | H3820 | 5 | heart, feelings |
| מִרְמָה | mirmâh | H4820 | 3 | fraud |
| אָדָם | ʼâdâm | H120 | 4 | ruddy, human being |
| טוֹב | ṭôwb | H2896 | 4 | good |
| רַע | raʻ | H7451 | 4 | bad, evil |
How preachers through history handled this text
20 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 12, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“A foolish man is soon angry, and is hasty in expressing it; he is ever in trouble and running into mischief. It is kindness to ourselves to make light of injuries and affronts, instead of making the worst of them.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 12:16–17 (Public Domain)
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