Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.

New American Standard Bible

Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head
And ornaments about your neck.

King James Version

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Holman Bible

for they will be a garland of grace on your head
and a gold chain around your neck.

International Standard Version

They will be a graceful wreath for your head and a chain for your neck.

A Conservative Version

For they shall be a garland of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

American Standard Version

For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

Amplified


For they are a garland of grace on your head,
And chains and ornaments [of gold] around your neck.

Bible in Basic English

For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

Darby Translation

for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Julia Smith Translation

For they a garland of grace to thy head, and necklaces for thy throat

King James 2000

For they shall be an ornament of grace unto your head, and chains about your neck.

Lexham Expanded Bible

for they [are] a garland of favor for your head, and pendants for your neck.

Modern King James verseion

for they shall be an ornament of grace to your head and chains around your neck.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

for that shall bring grace unto thy head, and shall be a chain about thy neck.

NET Bible

For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

New Heart English Bible

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and a necklace around your neck.

The Emphasized Bible

For, a wreath of beauty, shall they be to thy head, and chains of ornament, to thy neck.

Webster

For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.

World English Bible

for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לויה 
Livyah 
Usage: 2

of grace
חן 
Chen 
Usage: 69

ראשׁ 
Ro'sh 
Usage: 598

and chains
ענק 
`anaq 
Usage: 3

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Proverbs 1:9

References

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

Advice To The Young

8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother, 9 For a graceful wreath are they to thy head, And chains to thy neck. 10 My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.



Cross References

Proverbs 4:9

She giveth to thy head a wreath of grace, A crown of beauty she doth give thee freely.

Genesis 41:42

And Pharaoh turneth aside his seal-ring from off his hand, and putteth it on the hand of Joseph, and clotheth him with garments of fine linen, and placeth a chain of gold on his neck,

Daniel 5:29

Then hath Belshazzar said, and they have clothed Daniel with purple, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and they have proclaimed concerning him that he is the third ruler in the kingdom.

Proverbs 3:22

And they are life to thy soul, and grace to thy neck.

Proverbs 6:20-21

Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

Song of Songs 1:10

Comely have been thy cheeks with garlands, Thy neck with chains.

Song of Songs 4:9

Thou hast emboldened me, my sister-spouse, Emboldened me with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

Isaiah 3:19

Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

Ezekiel 16:11

And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.

Daniel 5:7

Call doth the king mightily, to bring up the enchanters, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. Answered hath the king, and said to the wise men of Babylon, that, 'Any man who doth read this writing, and its interpretation doth shew me, purple he putteth on, and a bracelet of gold is on his neck, and third in the kingdom he doth rule.'

Daniel 5:16

and I -- I have heard of thee, that thou art able to give interpretations, and to loose knots: now, lo -- thou art able to read the writing, and its interpretation to cause me to know -- purple thou dost put on, and a bracelet of gold is on thy neck, and third in the kingdom thou dost rule.'

1 Timothy 2:9-10

in like manner also the women, in becoming apparel, with modesty and sobriety to adorn themselves, not in braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or garments of great price,

1 Peter 3:3-4

whose adorning -- let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

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