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Proverbs 5

Prov. 5:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Drink
shathah (Hebrew #8354)
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X assuredly, banquet, X certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk (X -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of 8248.)
Pronounce: shaw-thaw'
Origin: a primitive root
waters
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
out of thine ownx cistern
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
, and running waters
nazal (Hebrew #5140)
to drip, or shed by trickling
KJV usage: distil, drop, flood, (cause to) flow(-ing), gush out, melt, pour (down), running water, stream.
Pronounce: naw-zal'
Origin: a primitive root
out of
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
thine own well
'er (Hebrew #875)
a pit; especially a well
KJV usage: pit, well.
Pronounce: be-ayr'
Origin: from 874
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1 Cor. 7:2• 2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)

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Ministry on This Verse

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Prov. 5:18‑19• 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. (Prov. 5:18‑19)
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1 Cor. 7:2‑5• 2but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.
 3Let the husband render her due to the wife, and in like manner the wife to the husband.
 4The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.
 5Defraud not one another, unless, it may be, by consent for a time, that ye may devote yourselves to prayer, and again be together, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. (1 Cor. 7:2‑5)
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Heb. 13:4• 4Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)
• “Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Heb. 13:4). How much precious teaching in the New Testament, particularly the epistolary portion of it, flows from this truth. (“Proverbs Five” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.