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Proverbs 18:19

A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

KJV

Frater qui adjuvatur a fratre quasi civitas firma, et judicia quasi vectes urbium.

Vulgate

ἀδελφὸς ὑπὸ ἀδελφοῦ βοηθούμενος ὡς πόλις ὀχυρὰ καὶ ὑψηλή, ἰσχύει δὲ ὥσπερ τεθεμελιωμένον βασίλειον.

LXX

A brother offendedis harder to be won than a strong city; Andsuchcontentions are like the bars of a castle.

ASV

אָ֗ח נִפְשָׁ֥ע מִ/קִּרְיַת עֹ֑ז ו/מדונים וּ֝/מִדְיָנִ֗ים כִּ/בְרִ֥יחַ אַרְמֽוֹן

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הָ
h
noun · 32×
ו
v
noun · 629×
ו
v
noun · 42×
וֹ
v
noun · 89×
מִ֝דְיָנִ֗ים
mdynym
noun · 9×
מָד֑וֹן
mdvn
noun · 17×
פָּשַׁ֣ע
psh'
verb · 40×
קִרְיָ֖ה
qryh
noun · 29×

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which He has consecrated for us. Having shown the difference of the High Priest, and of the sacrifices, and of the tabernacle, and of the Covenant, and of the promise, and that the difference is great, since those are temporal, but these eternal, those near to vanish…
1. They who drink bitter medicines, first submit to some unpleasantness, and afterwards feel the benefit. For such is virtue, such is vice. In the latter there is first the pleasure, then the despondency: in the former first the despondency, and then the pleasure. But there is no equality; for it is not the same, to be first grieved and afterwards pleased, and to be first pleas…

Cross-references

  • 1Kgs 2:23 — Then king Solomon sware by the LORD, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah have not spoken this word against his own life.
  • 1Kgs 12:16 — So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Isr
  • 1Sam 17:28 — And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in th
  • 2Sam 13:22 — And Absalom spake unto his brother Amnon neither good nor bad: for Absalom hated Amnon, because he had forced his sister Tamar.
  • 2Sam 13:28 — Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark ye now when Amnon’s heart is merry with wine, and when I say unto you, Smite Amnon; then kill him, fear not: have not I commanded you? be courageou
  • Acts 15:39 — And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
  • Gen 4:5 — But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
  • Gen 27:41 — And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob.
  • Gen 32:6 — And the messengers returned to Jacob, saying, We came to thy brother Esau, and also he cometh to meet thee, and four hundred men with him.
  • Gen 32:11 — Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
  • Gen 37:3 — Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
  • Gen 37:18 — And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
  • Prov 6:19 — A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
  • Prov 16:32 — He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.