11 translations · Hebrew
Proverbs 3:9
Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
Proverbs 3:9 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
- KJV King James Version
- Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
- ASV American Standard Version
- Honor Jehovah with thy substance, And with the first-fruits of all thine increase:
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- Honor YHWH from your substance, || And from the beginning of all your increase;
- FBV Free Bible Version
- Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all the crops you grow.
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- Honour Jehovah from thy substance, And from the beginning of all thine increase;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Honour Jehovah with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase;
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- Honor the LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thy increase:
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- Honor the LORD with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase;
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- Honour the Lord with thy substance, and give him of the first of all thy fruits:
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| כַּבֵּ֣ד | kab·bêḏ | Honor | H3513 כָּבֵד to honor: honour |
| אֶת־ | ’eṯ- | — | H853 אֵת [Obj.] |
| יְ֭הוָה | Yah·weh | the LORD | H3068 יְהֹוָה LORD |
| מֵהוֹנֶ֑ךָ | mê·hō·w·ne·ḵā | with your wealth | H1952 הוֹן substance |
| וּ֝מֵרֵאשִׁ֗ית | ū·mê·rê·šîṯ | and with the firstfruits | H7225 רֵאשִׁית first: beginning |
| כָּל־ | kāl- | of all | H3605 כֹּל all |
| תְּבוּאָתֶֽךָ׃ | tə·ḇū·’ā·ṯe·ḵā | your crops | H8393 תְּבוּאָה produce |
Related verses
- Deuteronomy 26:2–15
that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you shall bring in from your land that Yahweh your God gives you. You shall put it in a basket, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there. You shall come to the priest who shall be in those days, and tell him, “I profess today to Yahweh your God, that I have come to the land which Yahweh swore to our fathers to give us.” The priest shall take the basket out of your hand, and set it down before Yahweh your God’s altar. …
- 1 Corinthians 16:2
On the first day of the week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come.
- Exodus 23:19
The first of the first fruits of your ground you shall bring into the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.
- Proverbs 14:31
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
- Philippians 4:17–18
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account. But I have all things, and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice to God.
- Malachi 3:8–10
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with the curse; for you rob me, even this whole nation. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Exodus 22:29
“You shall not delay to offer from your harvest and from the outflow of your presses. “You shall give the firstborn of your sons to me.
- Haggai 1:4–9
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.” …
- 2 Corinthians 8:2–3
how that in much proof of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to the riches of their generosity. For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,
- Exodus 34:26
“You shall bring the first of the first fruits of your ground to the house of Yahweh your God. “You shall not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
7 Don’t be wise in your own eyes. Fear Yahweh, and depart from evil.
8 It will be health to your body, and nourishment to your bones.
9 Honor Yahweh with your substance, with the first fruits of all your increase:
10 so your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.
11 My son, don’t despise Yahweh’s discipline, neither be weary of his reproof:
Read all of Proverbs 3 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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