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Proverbs 30:1 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 30 · verse 1
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,Proverbs 30:1 · King James Version
Proverbs 30:1 in context
1The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,
2Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.
3I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- prophecymassâʼa burdenH4853 →
- IthielʼÎythîyʼêlIthiel, the name of an Israelite, also of a symbolical personH384 →
- wordsdâbâra wordH1697 →
- JakehYâqehJakeh, a symbolical nameH3348 →
- spakenᵉʼuman oracleH5002 →
- AgurʼÂgûwrAgur, a fanciful name for SolomonH94 →
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Some make Agur to be not the name of this author, but his character; he was a collector (so it signifies), a gatherer, one that did not compose things himself, but collected the wise sayings and observations of others, made abstracts of the writings of others, which some think is the reason why he says (Pro 30:3), "I…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6