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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,{HR}Sharp as a two-edged sword.
 5Her feet go down to death;{HR}Her steps take hold on Sheol.
 6Lest she should ponder the path of life,{HR}Her ways are unstable, she knoweth [it] not.
 7And now, children, hearken to me,{HR}And depart not from the words of my mouth.
 8Remove thy way far from her,{HR}And come not nigh the door of her house;
 9Lest thou give thine honour to others,{HR}And thy years to the cruel;
 10Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth,{HR}And thy labours [go] to the house of an alien;
 11And thou mourn in thine end,{HR}When thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
 12And thou say, How have I hated instruction,{HR}And my heart despised reproof;
 13And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers,{HR}Nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me!
 14I was well nigh in all evil{HR}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 [one cometh] to a piece of bread,{HR}And another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
 27Can a man take fire in his bosom,{HR}And his garments not be burned?
 28Can one go upon hot coals,{HR}And his feet not be scorched?
 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife:{HR}Whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.
 30They do not despise a thief,{HR}If he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
 31And [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold;{HR}He shall give all the substance of his house.
 32Whoso committeth adultery with a woman is void of understanding;{HR}He [that] doeth it destroyeth his own soul.
 33A wound and contempt shall he get;{HR}And his reproach shall not be wiped away.
 34For jealousy [is] the rage of a man,{HR}And he will not spare in the day of vengeance;
 35He will not regard any ransom,{HR}Neither will he rest content though thou multipliest gifts. (Prov. 6:26‑35)
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Prov. 7:22‑27• 22He goeth after suddenly, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,{HR}And as in fetters to his correction the fool;
 23Till an arrow strike through his liver,{HR}As a bird hasteth to the snare,{HR}And knoweth not that [it is] for its life.
 24And now, sons, hearken to me,{HR}And attend to the words of my mouth.
 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways;{HR}Go not astray in her paths:
 26For she hath cast down many wounded;{HR}And all slain by her are strong.
 27Her house [is] the way to Sheol,{HR}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,{HR}[That] her guests [are] in the depths of Sheol. (Prov. 9:18)
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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• 9What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
 10nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom.
 11And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] 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 fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
 20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
 21envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)
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Eph. 5:5• 5For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:5)
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Rev. 21:8• 8But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)
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Rev. 22:15• 15Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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For her house inclineth unto death,{HR}And her paths unto the dead;