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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 find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. (Eccl. 7:26)

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Prov. 2:16‑19• 16To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
 17Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
 18For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
 19None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life. (Prov. 2:16‑19)
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Prov. 5:3‑23• 3For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
 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.
 15Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
 16Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
 17Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
 18Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
 19Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.
 20And why wilt 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 the Lord, and he pondereth all his goings.
 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
 23He shall die without instruction; 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 thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
 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. (Prov. 6:24‑29)
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Prov. 7:5‑27• 5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
 6For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
 7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, 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, in the black and dark night:
 10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtile of heart.
 11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
 12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
 13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,
 14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.
 15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
 16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
 17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
 18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
 19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
 20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
 21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.
 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. 7:5‑27)
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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 be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.
 21But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did 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 many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin. (Neh. 13:26)
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Eccl. 7:26• 26And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken 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 when the Lord saw it, he abhorred 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' lust: and they walked in 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.