Proverbs 17:14
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
To start a quarrel is to release a flood; so abandon the dispute before it breaks out.

Young's Literal Translation
The beginning of contention [is] a letting out of waters, And before it is meddled with leave the strife.

King James Bible
The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.

Hebrew
To start
רֵאשִׁ֣ית (rê·šîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 7225: The first, in place, time, order, rank

a quarrel
מָד֑וֹן (mā·ḏō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4066: A contest, quarrel

is to release
פּ֣וֹטֵֽר (pō·w·ṭêr)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 6362: To cleave, burst through, to emit

a flood;
מַ֭יִם (ma·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 4325: Water, juice, urine, semen

so abandon
נְטֽוֹשׁ׃ (nə·ṭō·wōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's 5203: To pound, smite, to disperse, to thrust off, down, out, upon

the dispute
הָרִ֥יב (hā·rîḇ)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7379: Strife, dispute

before
וְלִפְנֵ֥י (wə·lip̄·nê)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

it breaks out.
הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע (hiṯ·gal·la‘)
Verb - Hitpael - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1566: To expose, lay bare

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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