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Proverbs 31

Prov. 31:22 KJV (With Strong’s)

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She maketh
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
herself coverings of tapestry
marbad (Hebrew #4765)
a coverlet
KJV usage: covering of tapestry.
Pronounce: mar-bad'
Origin: from 7234
; her clothing
lbuwsh (Hebrew #3830)
from 3847; a garment (literally or figuratively); by implication (euphem.) a wife
KJV usage: apparel, clothed with, clothing, garment, raiment, vestment, vesture.
Pronounce: leb-oosh'
Origin: or lbush {leb-oosh'}
is silk
shesh (Hebrew #8336)
for 7893; bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
KJV usage: X blue, fine ((twined)) linen, marble, silk.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: or (for alliteration with 4897) shshiy {shesh-ee'}
and purple
'argaman (Hebrew #713)
purple (the color or the dyed stuff)
KJV usage: purple.
Pronounce: ar-gaw-mawn'
Origin: of foreign origin
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Clothing,
Purple,
Silk,
Tapestry

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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coverings.
Prov. 7:16• 16I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt; (Prov. 7:16)
clothing.
Gen. 41:42• 42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in clothes of byssus, and put a gold chain on his neck. (Gen. 41:42)
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Gen. 41•  (Gen. 41)
:*marg:;
Esther 5:1• 1And it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house. And the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the entrance to the house. (Esther 5:1)
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Esther 8:15• 15And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a mantle of byssus and purple; and the city of Shushan shouted and was glad. (Esther 8:15)
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Psa. 45:13‑14• 13All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:
 14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee: (Psa. 45:13‑14)
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Ezek. 16:10‑13• 10and I clothed thee with embroidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I bound thee about with byssus, and covered thee with silk.
 11And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck;
 12and I put a ring on thy nose, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thy head.
 13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver, and thy raiment was byssus, and silk, and embroidered work. Thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil; and thou becamest exceedingly beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. (Ezek. 16:10‑13)
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1 Peter 3:3• 3whose adorning let it not be that outward one of tressing of hair, and wearing gold, or putting on apparel; (1 Peter 3:3)
silk.{Shesh,} rather fine linen, or cotton.
(See on Ex 39:27.) {Sadin,} rendered "fine linen," ver. 24, is probably the same as the Arabic {sidn,} and {sudl,} a veil, or an inner covering of fine muslin.
• (Mem) The authorized version reads “silk” in describing the clothing of verse 22, but it is now well-known that not until the reign of Justinian was silk brought to the Levant from China. Fine, white linen, glistening like silk, such as the bride is arrayed with in Revelation 19, is what is undoubtedly intended as elsewhere in Scripture purple and fine linen are used together as the attire of the well-clothed. See Luke 16:19. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)
• The purple was obtained from “the juice of a certain species of shell-fish found on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea. The juice of the entire fish was not used, but only a little of its liquor, called the flower, contained in a white vein, or vessel, in the neck.” Typically, the fine linen and purple picture, as in the tabernacle hangings, practical righteousness and royal glory. In the rich man referred to above, we see how one could be outwardly covered with what spoke of uprightness and privilege, while actually “poor, and wretched, and blind, and miserable, and naked.” The virtuous wife is robed in what bespeaks her true character and dignity. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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She maketh herself coverletsc; her clothing is byssusd and purple.

JND Translation Notes

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c
See ch. 7.16.
d
Or "linen."