Mishle 4:1

1 Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).

Mishle 4:1 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 4:1

Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father
Either of God their father, as Gersom interprets it; or rather of Solomon their father: and so he recommends his instruction from the relation he stood in to them; for, since he was their father, he would give them no bad instruction; and, since they were his children, they ought to receive it: by whom are meant, not his children in a natural sense, or the children of his body; but his disciples, such who applied to him for knowledge, and whom he undertook to learn; and attend to know understanding;
what would serve to enlighten, enlarge, improve, and inform their understandings; what would lead them into the knowledge and understanding of things divine and spiritual, and which would be worth knowing; and of having their understandings stored and enriched with.

Mishle 4:1 In-Context

1 Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).

2 For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.

3 For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.

4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.

5 Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).