Proverbs

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

Proper noun

  1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.
    • The Proverbs are an excellent springboard for broad-ranging Bible study. If you study Solomon’s pearls of wisdom, you will find the Spirit of God leading you (by chain references or quiet remembrance) all over the Old...
    • 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. -...

Forms

Proverbs the Proverbs Proverb Prov.

Derived

Proverbs woman