Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

proverbs

/pɹˈɑvɚbz/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.28 in modern English

Syllables: proverbs
IPA: /pɹˈɑvɚbz/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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

noun

plural of proverb

verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of proverb

Example Sentences

"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."

Inflected Forms

the Proverbs (canonical, plural) Proverb (singular) Prov. (alternative)

Phrases

Proverbs woman

Questions

How do you pronounce proverbs?: The recorded pronunciation is /pɹˈɑvɚbz/.
What does proverbs mean?: A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection of moral maxims.

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