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Proverbs

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  1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral…

    A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.

    • Erman’s remark (1924) that a decent wisdom book was destroyed when it was absorbed into the book of Proverbs coheres well with the scholarly consensus that Proverbs is a clumsy accretion of ill-digested material.

  2. plural of proverb

  3. third-person singular simple present indicative of proverb

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA