Parallel Verses

King James 2000

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

New American Standard Bible

Pleasant words are a honeycomb,
Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

King James Version

Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Holman Bible

Pleasant words are a honeycomb:
sweet to the taste and health to the body.

International Standard Version

Pleasant words are honey from a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing for the body.

A Conservative Version

Pleasant words are a honeycomb: Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

American Standard Version

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Amplified


Pleasant words are like a honeycomb,
Sweet and delightful to the soul and healing to the body.

Bible in Basic English

Pleasing words are like honey, sweet to the soul and new life to the bones.

Darby Translation

Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health for the bones.

Julia Smith Translation

Words of pleasantness an, honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and healing to the bones.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Pleasant sayings [are] a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and healing to the bones.

Modern King James verseion

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Fair words are a honeycomb, a refreshing of the mind, and health of the bones.

NET Bible

Pleasant words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.

New Heart English Bible

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

The Emphasized Bible

A comb of honey, are pleasant words, sweet to the taste and healing to the bone.

Webster

Pleasant words are as a honey-comb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

World English Bible

Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sayings of pleasantness are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul, and healing to the bone.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נעם 
No`am 
Usage: 7

אמר 
'emer 
Usage: 49

are as an honeycomb
צוּף 
Tsuwph 
Usage: 2

מתוּק מתוק 
Mathowq 
Usage: 12

to the soul
נפשׁ 
Nephesh 
Usage: 753

and health
מרפּא 
Marpe' 
Usage: 16

References

Easton

Hastings

Context Readings

Proverbs Of Solomon

23 The heart of the wise teaches his mouth, and adds learning to his lips. 24 Pleasant words are as a honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. 25 There is a way that seems right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.



Cross References

Psalm 19:10

More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Proverbs 4:22

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

Proverbs 15:26

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Proverbs 24:13-14

My son, eat honey because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to your taste:

Proverbs 12:18

There is one that speaks like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise brings health.

Proverbs 15:23

A man has joy by the answer of his mouth: and a word spoken in due season, how good is it!

Proverbs 25:11-12

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

Deuteronomy 32:2

My teaching shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:

Psalm 119:103

How sweet are your words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

Proverbs 3:8

It shall be health to your body, and strength to your bones.

Proverbs 23:16

Yea, my inmost being shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.

Proverbs 27:9

Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so does the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

Song of Songs 4:11

Your lips, O my spouse, drop like the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 15:16

Your words were found, and I did eat them; and your word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, O LORD God of hosts.

John 20:19-21

Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them, Peace be unto you.

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