What Does Proverbs 24:6 Mean in the King James?

For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 24:6 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The “safety” among many counselors is ⁨תְּשׁוּעָה⁩ (teshuah, deliverance): shared counsel opens a way through conflict.

THE MEANING

Conflict is not held by one mind alone: wise counsel gives your action direction, and many counselors widen the way toward deliverance. The safety in this verse is a way through the struggle, not merely shelter from it.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the belief that one person must carry the whole conflict alone for the outcome to be safe.

THE ROOT

תְּשׁוּעָה

teshuah

GROWS FROM

י־שׁ־ע

To deliver or rescue, bringing someone into room to move.

⁨תְּשׁוּעָה⁩ (teshuah, deliverance) gives “safety” an active sense: being brought through. The verse places that movement at the end of wise counsel and many advisers, so a way through the conflict emerges through shared judgment.

ALSO GROWS

yasha: To deliver or rescue.

יָשַׁע

The verb names the movement that the verse presents as the result of counsel.

yeshuah: Deliverance.

יְשׁוּעָה

This noun shares the root of the verse’s ⁨תְּשׁוּעָה⁩ (teshuah, deliverance), gathering the same idea in another form.

Yeshua: Deliverance; the name Jesus.

יֵשׁוּעַ

The name carries the same root of deliverance, linking the outcome here with deliverance as nature.

יוֹעֵץ

yo'etz

GROWS FROM

י־ע־ץ

To advise, deliberate, or direct by counsel.

“counsellors” in this verse is yo'etz. ⁨יוֹעֵץ⁩ (yo’etz, adviser) comes from ⁨יָעַץ⁩ (ya’ats, to advise), the same root as ⁨עֵצָה⁩ (etsah, counsel). The shared root keeps attention on counsel being exchanged and multiplied, rather than on the mere presence of a crowd.

ALSO GROWS

etsah: Counsel or advice.

עֵצָה

This is the counsel that the verse gathers across many voices.

yo'etz: Adviser or counselor.

יוֹעֵץ

Each counselor is one participant in the shared counsel through which the verse locates deliverance.

THE PATTERN

Sound action and deliverance take shape when judgment is shared across many voices.

Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 11:14 · KJVAs in the current verse, a multitude of counselors is joined directly to safety.

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

Exodus 18:23 · KJVShared responsibility makes endurance possible for one person and gives the whole community a way forward.

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

Acts 15:28 · KJVThe decision is voiced as shared judgment, with the community discerning what is necessary.

THE THREAD

Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.

Proverbs 20:18 · KJV

This verse uses ⁨תַּחְבֻּלוֹת⁩ (tahbulot, strategic guidance) and ⁨מִלְחָמָה⁩ (milchamah, war), the same Hebrew words that connect counsel and battle in Proverbs 24:6. Read together, they show deliverance emerging as conflict is shaped by counsel shared among many.

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