Proverbs

See also proverbs

English

Proverbs on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “Proverbs” on Wikisource. Wikisource Wiktionary has an Appendix listing books of the Bible

Proper noun

Proverbs

1. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection or moral maxims.

Related terms

• Prov.

Translations

book of the Bible

Afrikaans: Spreuke (af) Chinese: Mandarin: 箴言 (zh) (zhēnyán) Dutch: Spreuken Estonian: Õpetussõnad (et) pl. Finnish: Sananlaskut (fi) French: Proverbes (fr) Greek: Παροιμίες (el) (Paroimíes) Japanese: 箴言 (shingen)

Luxembourgish: Sprachwierder (lb) Maltese: Ktieb il-Qwiel Norwegian: Salomos Ordtøke (no) n. pl. Polish: Księga Przysłów (pl) f. Russian: Книга Притчей Соломоновых (ru) (Kníga Prítčej Solomónovyx) f., Притчи (ru) (Prítči) f. pl. Slovene: Pregovori