22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.
Focused Passage
Proverbs 17:22
Wisdom in Household Peace, Tested Hearts, Just Speech, and Relational Restraint
The chapter moves through household peace, divine heart-testing, speech and poverty, family honor, bribery and love, rebuke and folly, quarrels and justice, friendship and surety, conflict and grief, crooked justice, wandering folly, and restrained speech.
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Verse 22
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A joyful שָׂ֭מֵחַ H8056 Adjective - masculine singular heart לֵ֣ב H3820 Noun - masculine singular is good יֵיטִ֣ב H3190 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular medicine גֵּהָ֑ה H1456 Noun - feminine singular but a broken נְ֝כֵאָ֗ה H5218 Adjective - feminine singular spirit וְר֥וּחַ H7307 Conjunctive waw | Noun - common singular dries up תְּיַבֶּשׁ־ H3001 Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular the bones גָּֽרֶם׃ H1634 Noun - masculine singular