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Proverbs 31

Prov. 31:27 KJV (With Strong’s)

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She looketh well
tsaphah (Hebrew #6822)
properly, to lean forward, i.e. to peer into the distance; by implication, to observe, await
KJV usage: behold, espy, look up (well), wait for, (keep the) watch(-man).
Pronounce: tsaw-faw'
Origin: a primitive root
to the ways
haliykah (Hebrew #1979)
a walking; by implication, a procession or march, a caravan
KJV usage: company, going, walk, way.
Pronounce: hal-ee-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 1978
haliykah (Hebrew #1979)
a walking; by implication, a procession or march, a caravan
KJV usage: company, going, walk, way.
Pronounce: hal-ee-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 1978
of her household
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
, and eateth
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
not the bread
lechem (Hebrew #3899)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
KJV usage: ((shew-))bread, X eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals. See also 1036.
Pronounce: lekh'-em
Origin: from 3898
of idleness
`atsluwth (Hebrew #6104)
indolence
KJV usage: idleness.
Pronounce: ats-looth'
Origin: rom 6101
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 14:1• 1Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands. (Prov. 14:1)
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1 Thess. 4:11• 11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; (1 Thess. 4:11)
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2 Thess. 3:6• 6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us. (2 Thess. 3:6)
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1 Tim. 5:10• 10Well reported of for good works; if she have brought up children, if she have lodged strangers, if she have washed the saints' feet, if she have relieved the afflicted, if she have diligently followed every good work. (1 Tim. 5:10)
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Titus 2:4• 4That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, (Titus 2:4)
• (Tsaddi) The twenty-seventh verse emphasizes something which in a wife and mother is unspeakably precious. She looks well to the ways of her household. Solicitously she notices the habits and actions, as well as marking the speech, of her children. Without nagging and ill-temper, she yet exercises a firm but loving discipline over each one; checking here and encouraging there, as she sees either to be needed. Never too busy to seek to win an erring one from the snares of worldliness and pride, she eats not the bread of idleness, but by both example and precept endeavors to guide her offspring in the way of peace. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.