The Meaning of Proverbs 8:25 Explained

Proverbs 8:25

KJV: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:

YLT: Before mountains were sunk, Before heights, I was brought forth.

Darby: Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth;

ASV: Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Before the mountains  were settled,  before  the hills  was I brought forth: 

What does Proverbs 8:25 Mean?

Context Summary

Proverbs 8:22-36 - Finding Wisdom, Finding Life
The world did not come into being by chance. It was created by an intelligent Creator. Nothing is arbitrary or by accident. Law is the expression of the perfect will of God. It is founded on the inherent necessity which is at the heart of all things; and it is according to unchanging law that all things subsist. Yet never forget that God is Redeemer, as well as Creator, and reserves to Himself the right of suffering the infliction of a broken law, that He may step in to redeem those who are penitent and believing.
It would seem as if in Luke 7:35 our Lord appropriated these sublime words as applicable to Himself. How glorious it is that He appropriates Proverbs 8:31! He does not delight in us after we are redeemed, but before; and it is on this that He bases His appeal: Blessed are they that keep My ways, Proverbs 8:32. Let us watch daily at His gates, and wait at the posts of His doors. For to find Him is to find eternal life, 1 John 4:19. [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 8

1  the fame
6  and evidence of wisdom
10  The excellence
12  the nature
15  the power
18  the riches
22  and the eternity of wisdom
32  Wisdom is to be desired for the blessedness it brings

What do the individual words in Proverbs 8:25 mean?

Before the mountains were settled Before the hills I was brought forth
בְּטֶ֣רֶם הָרִ֣ים הָטְבָּ֑עוּ לִפְנֵ֖י גְבָע֣וֹת חוֹלָֽלְתִּי

בְּטֶ֣רֶם  Before 
Parse: Preposition-b, Adverb
Root: טֶרֶם  
Sense: before, not yet, before that.
הָרִ֣ים  the  mountains 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: הַר  
Sense: hill, mountain, hill country, mount.
הָטְבָּ֑עוּ  were  settled 
Parse: Verb, Hofal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: טָבַע  
Sense: to sink, sink into, sink down, pierce, settle down, drown, be settled, be planted.
לִפְנֵ֖י  Before 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, common plural construct
Root: לִפְנֵי 
Sense: face.
גְבָע֣וֹת  the  hills 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: גִּבְעָה  
Sense: hill.
חוֹלָֽלְתִּי  I  was  brought  forth 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: חוּל 
Sense: to twist, whirl, dance, writhe, fear, tremble, travail, be in anguish, be pained.

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