Lexicon
רָזוֹן
ra.zon
H7333
H:N-M Hebrew

prince

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ra.zon denotes a prince in the verse’s contrast between a populous people and a people’s end.

The sole attestation uses the noun for a prince in a proverb contrasting the abundance of a people with the end of a people.

Senses in use

  1. A prince in a contrasting proverb · dominant

    In Proverbs 14:28, the masculine singular absolute noun occurs in the clause about “the terror of a prince,” set against the preceding statement about a king and the abundance of a people; the APB renders the verse with this contrast.

In the Anselm Project Bible: In Proverbs 14:28, the APB presents the term in the clause “the terror of a prince.” This rendering is treated as confirmation of the clause rather than a complete lexical definition.

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