Passage Research
Proverbs 29 — Sermon Preparation
Proverbs on the danger of stubbornly rejecting correction, the chaos that follows when there is no vision, and the peace that discipline brings to parent and child. Below is a research summary for Proverbs 29, 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
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Proverbs 29 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַדִּיק | tsaddîyq | H6662 | 5 | just |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 5 | wrong, bad |
| פֶּשַׁע | peshaʻ | H6588 | 3 | revolt |
| מָשַׁל | mâshal | H4910 | 3 | rule |
| חָכָם | châkâm | H2450 | 3 | wise |
| שָׂמַח | sâmach | H8055 | 3 | brighten, be |
| רָבָה | râbâh | H7235 | 3 | increase |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Proverbs 29, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“Good usage to a servant does not mean indulgence, which would ruin even a child. The body is a servant to the soul; those that humour it, and are over-tender of it, will find it forget its place.”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible (Concise), on Proverbs 29:21–24 (Public Domain)
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