Proverbs 4:8 - Exposition

Exalt her, and she shall promote thee. The father here proceeds to point out some of the benefits which follow from the pursuit of Wisdom. Exalt her ( sal's'leah ); Vulgate, arripe illam ; LXX ; περιχαράκωσον αὐτὴν ; Targum, dilige eam ; Syriac, blandire illi ; Arabic, circumsepi eam. The Hebrew, sal's'leah, is the pilpel imperative of salal, "to lift up, exalt." It is equivalent to the kal form. The pilpel form only occurs here, but the kal participle is met with in Proverbs 15:19 , where it has the meaning of "to raise up as a causeway" . Gesenius renders, "exalt her," sc. with praises. The meaning of the verb, as Delitzsch says, is to be determined, by the corresponding "she shall promote thee" ( th'rom'mek ) , and this verb romem is