A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
The 1611 reading
A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
KJV dictionary & concordance
Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 4:23
Complete exact-word concordance
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
A wise man wil heare, and wil increase learning: and a man of vnderstanding shall attaine vnto wise counsels:
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
My sonne, heare the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
¶ Heare, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know vnderstanding.
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Heare, O my sonne, and receiue my sayings: and the yeeres of thy life shalbe many.
Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
Heare me now therefore, O yee children: & depart not from the words of my mouth.
Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things.
Heare, for I will speake of excellent things: and the opening of my lippes shalbe right things.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Heare instruction, and bee wise, and refuse it not.
Hear counsel, and receive instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Heare counsell, and receiue instruction, that thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Cease, my sonne, to heare the instruction, that causeth to erre from the words of knowledge.
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart vnto my knowledge.
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