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Proverbs 22

Prov. 22:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The mouth
peh (Hebrew #6310)
the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with preposition) according to
KJV usage: accord(-ing as, -ing to), after, appointment, assent, collar, command(-ment), X eat, edge, end, entry, + file, hole, X in, mind, mouth, part, portion, X (should) say(-ing), sentence, skirt, sound, speech, X spoken, talk, tenor, X to, + two-edged, wish, word.
Pronounce: peh
Origin: from 6284
of strange women
zuwr (Hebrew #2114)
to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a foreigner, strange, profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery
KJV usage: (come from) another (man, place), fanner, go away, (e-)strange(-r, thing, woman).
Pronounce: zoor
Origin: a primitive root
is a deep
`amoq (Hebrew #6013)
deep (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (X exceeding) deep (thing).
Pronounce: aw-moke'
Origin: from 6009
pit
shuwchah (Hebrew #7745)
a chasm
KJV usage: ditch, pit.
Pronounce: shoo-khaw'
Origin: from 7743
: hee that is abhorred
za`am (Hebrew #2194)
properly, to foam at the mouth, i.e. to be enraged
KJV usage: abhor, abominable, (be) angry, defy, (have) indignation.
Pronounce: zaw-am'
Origin: a primitive root
of the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
shall fall
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
therein.
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Eccl. 7:26• 26and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her. (Eccl. 7:26)

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Prov. 2:16‑19• 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
 17who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
 18--for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;
 19none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life: (Prov. 2:16‑19)
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Prov. 5:3‑23• 3For the lips of the strange woman drop honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
 4but her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
 5Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on Sheol.
 6Lest she should ponder the path of life, her ways wander, she knoweth not whither.
 7And now, children, hearken unto me, 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 honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;
 10lest strangers be filled with thy wealth, and the fruits of thy toil come into the house of a stranger;
 11and thou mourn in thine end, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed;
 12and thou say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!
 13and I have not hearkened unto the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to those that instructed me;
 14I was well nigh in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
 16Thy fountains shall be poured forth, as water-brooks in the broadways.
 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
 18Let thy fountain be blessed; and have joy of the wife of thy youth.
 19As a lovely hind and a graceful roe, let her breasts satisfy thee at all times: be thou ravished continually with her love.
 20And why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
 21For the ways of man are before the eyes of Jehovah, and he pondereth all his paths.
 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.
 23He shall die for want of discipline; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. (Prov. 5:3‑23)
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Prov. 6:24‑29• 24to keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
 25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart, neither let her take thee with her eyelids;
 26for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.
 27Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his garments not be burned?
 28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
 29So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife: whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. (Prov. 6:24‑29)
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Prov. 7:5‑27• 5that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
 6For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
 7and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
 8passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
 9in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
 10And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
 11She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
 12now without, now in the broadways,--and she lieth in wait at every corner.
 13And she caught him and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
 14I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:
 15therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.
 16I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;
 17I have perfumed my couch with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 18Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
 19For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
 20he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
 21With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.
 22He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks serve for the correction of the fool;
 23till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.
 24And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
 25Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:
 26for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.
 27Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. (Prov. 7:5‑27)
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Prov. 23:27• 27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit. (Prov. 23:27)
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Judg. 16:20‑21• 20And she said, The Philistines are upon thee, Samson! And he awoke out of his sleep, and thought, I will go out as at other times before, and disengage myself. And he knew not that Jehovah had departed from him.
 21And the Philistines seized him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gazah, and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he had to grind in the prison-house. (Judg. 16:20‑21)
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Neh. 13:26• 26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin. (Neh. 13:26)
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Eccl. 7:26• 26and I found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is nets and snares, and whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be caught by her. (Eccl. 7:26)
a deep pit.That is, it is like a deep pit, or pitfall, in which animals are often taken alive.abhorred.
Deut. 32:19• 19And Jehovah saw it, and despised them, Because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters. (Deut. 32:19)
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Psa. 81:12• 12So I gave them up unto their own hearts' stubbornness: they walked after their own counsels. (Psa. 81:12)
• See notes on Proverbs 2:16-19; 6:23-35; 7:4-27. It is with her flattering words that the strange woman allures him who stops to listen, to his destruction. None who walk with God will be taken by her. (“Proverbs Twenty-Two” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.