Proverbs 4:3 meaning and explanation

When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,

Proverbs 4:3, Berean Standard Bible

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In this verse the speaker, a father instructing his sons, recalls his own boyhood. He describes himself as tender, the Hebrew word rak meaning soft or young, and as the only child of his mother.

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