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Proverbs 8:1
Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Wisdom speaks as a personified figure addressing the book’s audience, initiating a public appeal before specifying her physical location at the crossroads.
The words — חָכְמָה (chokh.mah) means wisdom, and תִקְרָא (tik.Ra') means she calls out, structuring the verse as a direct rhetorical question.
The thread — This pattern of public proclamation appears in Proverbs 1:20, is echoed in Matthew 3:3 regarding a wilderness voice, and is paralleled in John 7:37 where Jesus calls out to the thirsty.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to recognize wisdom’s active, audible pursuit and to respond to its explicit demand for attention.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
Cross-references
- Proverbs 1:20 Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;
- Matthew 3:3 This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah: “A voice of one calling in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for Him.’”
- John 7:37 On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Proverbs 9:1 Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.
- Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.”
- Isaiah 49:1 Listen to Me, O islands; pay attention, O distant peoples: The LORD called Me from the womb; from the body of My mother He named Me.
- Isaiah 55:1 “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
- Mark 13:10 And the gospel must first be proclaimed to all the nations.
- Luke 24:47 and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Romans 15:18 I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,