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Proverbs 2

Prov. 2:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For her house
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
inclineth
shuwach (Hebrew #7743)
to sink, literally or figuratively
KJV usage: bow down, incline, humble.
Pronounce: shoo'-akh
Origin: a primitive root
unto death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
, and her paths
ma`gal (Hebrew #4570)
from the same as 5696; a track (literally or figuratively); also a rampart (as circular)
KJV usage: going, path, trench, way((-side)).
Pronounce: mah-gawl'
Origin: or feminine mapgalah {mah-gaw-law'}
unto the dead
rapha' (Hebrew #7496)
properly, lax, i.e. (figuratively) a ghost (as dead; in plural only)
KJV usage: dead, deceased.
Pronounce: raw-faw'
Origin: from 7495 in the sense of 7503
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Cross References

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Prov. 5:4‑14• 4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.
 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
 6Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
 7Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
 8Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
 9Lest thou give thine honor unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labors be in the house of a stranger;
 11And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
 12And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
 13And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 14I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. (Prov. 5:4‑14)
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Prov. 6:26‑35• 26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.
 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
 29So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 30Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
 31But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
 32But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding: he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 33A wound and dishonor shall he get; and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
 34For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
 35He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. (Prov. 6:26‑35)
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Prov. 7:22‑27• 22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;
 23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
 24Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.
 25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
 26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.
 27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. (Prov. 7:22‑27)
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Prov. 9:18• 18But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. (Prov. 9:18)
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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• 9Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
 10Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
 11And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)
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Gal. 5:19‑21• 19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
 20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
 21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. (Gal. 5:19‑21)
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Eph. 5:5• 5For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. (Eph. 5:5)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)
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Rev. 22:15• 15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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—for her house inclineth unto death, and herd paths unto thef dead;

JND Translation Notes

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d
See Note i, ver. 9.
f
Or "shades," as Job. 26.5, see Ps. 88.10.