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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 coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. (Prov. 7:16)
clothing.
Gen. 41:42• 42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; (Gen. 41:42)
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Gen. 41•  (Gen. 41)
:*marg:;
Esther 5:1• 1Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her 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 gate of 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 garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. (Esther 8:15)
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Psa. 45:13‑14• 13The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
 14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee. (Psa. 45:13‑14)
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Ezek. 16:10‑13• 10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
 11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
 12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
 13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding 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 adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of 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."