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Meaning of Proverbs | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

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

plural-normally

Equivalents

العربية الأمثال
Català proverbis
Čeština přísloví
Cymraeg diarhebion
Dansk ordsprogene
Deutsch Sprüche
Ελληνικά παροιμίες
Español proverbios
Suomi sananlaskut
Français proverbes
ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi Solomona
עברית משלי
हिन्दी लोकोक्ति
Bahasa Indonesia amsal
Íslenska Orðskviðirnir
Italiano proverbi
日本語 箴言
한국어 잠언
Latina proverbia
Lietuvių Patarlių knyga
Latviešu Pamācības
Nederlands spreuken
Português Provérbios
Slovenčina Príslovia
Svenska Ordspråksboken
Kiswahili mithali
Tagalog kawikaan

Examples

“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 and New Testaments for confirming, clarifying examples.”
“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.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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