A crown is an object or image of adornment, honor or standing whose meaning is supplied by the setting. Proverbs pictures wisdom giving a crown and describes gray hair as a crown found in the way of righteousness.
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A crown is an object or image of adornment, honor or standing whose meaning is supplied by the setting. Proverbs pictures wisdom giving a crown and describes gray hair as a crown found in the way of righteousness.
The BSB source-word alignment has 23 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include the crown (7), crown (5), a crown (3), crowns (2), [is] a crown (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 2 Samuel 12:30. Its strongest book concentrations include Proverbs (5), Isaiah (4), Ezekiel (3), Job (2).
A crown is an object or image of adornment, honor or standing whose meaning is supplied by the setting. Proverbs pictures wisdom giving a crown and describes gray hair as a crown found in the way of righteousness. Isaiah rebukes Ephraim's proud crown and contrasts it with the Lord as a crown of glory for the remnant. Lamentations says the crown has fallen from the community's head within its confession and grief.
Zechariah instructs a crown-making act involving Joshua the high priest and the announced Branch. These uses cannot be treated as one reward system. A crown may honor, expose pride or mark lost standing. Teach the actual image and response without shaming people whose age, appearance or circumstances differ, equating prestige with divine approval, or giving an object power of its own.
Wisdom's adornment, honored age, Ephraim's pride, the Lord's glory, communal loss and Zechariah's symbolic act supply different crown contexts. The noun alone cannot settle who deserves honor.
She will set a garland of grace on your head; she will present you with a crown of beauty.”
Wisdom is pictured giving a garland and crown within the appeal to seek and hold to her instruction.
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
Gray hair is described as a crown of glory found in the way of righteousness, rather than proof that age alone settles conduct.
Woe to the majestic crown of Ephraim’s drunkards, to the fading flower of his glorious splendor, set on the summit above the fertile valley, the pride of those overcome by wine.
Ephraim's proud crown stands within a rebuke of drunkenness and approaching loss rather than divine approval of prestige.
On that day the Lord of Hosts will be a crown of glory, a diadem of splendor to the remnant of His people,
The Lord will be a crown of glory for the remnant in the passage's announced contrast.
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
The fallen crown belongs to communal loss, confession and the chapter's appeal for restoration.
Take silver and gold, make an ornate crown, and set it on the head of the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak.
The instruction makes an ornate crown and places it on Joshua within the following announcement concerning the Branch.
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Hebrew word. a crown
a crown BDB: crown Usage: crown.
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עֲטָרָה is built from this root:
Human crowns fade, but the Lord becomes the true crown for his people.Isaiah 28:1-6
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A crown can serve praise or expose a false security. Proverbs links its images to wisdom and the way of righteousness rather than prestige without conduct. Isaiah calls Ephraim's crown proud, announces its loss and then names the Lord as a crown of glory for the remnant. Lamentations presents a fallen crown within communal suffering and confession, not a rule for diagnosing every person who loses status.
Zechariah's crown-making instruction belongs to an addressed prophetic act involving Joshua and the Branch announcement; its symbolism requires the words that accompany it. Teach these specific settings openly. A congregation can honor faithful instruction and hear grief over lost standing while refusing to measure worth by decoration, public status, age or appearance.
Neither possession of a crown nor a minister's use of the image guarantees authority, immunity or approval from God.
Prov.4.9
The crown noun occurs with literal objects and figurative adornment or standing; modifiers and setting govern assessment. Twenty-three directly tagged BSB tokens and verses remain separately named from the canonical twenty-three, without making every honor image this lexeme.
Hebrews 7 presents Jesus' enduring priesthood through its explicit argument from Melchizedek and Psalm 110. It can be considered alongside Zechariah 6's priestly and royal announcement as a canonical comparison, but Hebrews does not quote the crown noun or identify every detail of Zechariah's object as a separate prediction.