Proverbs 7:27
in Proverbs 7Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
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ASV
Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
KJV
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
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This verse in Proverbs 7
Commentary
6 notes on this verseHer house is the way to hell - שאול sheol, the pit, the grave, the place of the dead, the eternal and infernal world. And they who, through such, fall into the grave, descend lower, into the chambers of death; the place where pleasure is at an end, and illusion mocks no more.
This site's exposition
Hearken unto me now therefore
on Proverbs 7:24-27
The father closes by widening the address from my son to O ye children, turning one man's story into a standing warning for every reader who has watched it. She hath cast down many wounded, yea many strong men have been slain by her insists that strength is no defense here, which the commentators take as the chapter's final correction to any reader tempted to think the young man's fault was only weakness. Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death closes the chapter on the same word the whole book opened with, life against death, the choice the son was always making.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Her house is the way down to Sheol, etc. But also concerning the Church, it says: The gates of hell will not prevail against it (Matt. XVI). Indeed, the innermost parts of death, the most severe torments of hell, are said to be sharper and …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
Her house, though richly decked and furnished, and called a house of pleasure, is the way to hell; and her chambers are the stair-case that goes down to the chambers of death and everlasting darkness.
3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.
quarantine:scripture (2026-07-29) — verbatim-run:42w-of-60
Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways" (p); the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as "sheol" often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit wickedness with her, is to take a step to destruction, a large stride towards hell; and, if grace prevent not, will bring a man thither.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| דַּרְכֵ֣י | darkhei | [is] [the] ways of | H1870 → | 707 times |
| שְׁא֣וֹל | sheol | Sheol | H7585 → | 66 times |
| בֵּיתָ֑הּ | beitah | house her | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת | yoredot | [which] go down | H3381 → | 381 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| חַדְרֵי־ | chadrei- | [the] chambers of | H2315 → | 38 times |
| מָֽוֶת׃ פ | mavet | death | H4194 → | 156 times |
דַּרְכֵ֣י[is] [the] ways of
darkheiH1870 →707 times
שְׁא֣וֹלSheol
sheolH7585 →66 times
בֵּיתָ֑הּhouse her
beitahH1004 →2046 times
יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת[which] go down
yoredotH3381 →381 times
אֶל־to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
חַדְרֵי־[the] chambers of
chadrei-H2315 →38 times
מָֽוֶת׃ פdeath
mavetH4194 →156 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Ecclesiastes 7:26And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is…
it leads to
- Proverbs 2:18–19
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Reached by 3 separate paths from here.
- Proverbs 22:14
The mouth of an adulteress is a deep pit; he who is under the wrath of the LORD will fall into it.
- Proverbs 5:3–5
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Proverbs 2:18–19
Through
Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.
it leads to
- Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This…
- Galatians 5:19–21
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- Philippians 3:2
Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!
- 1 Corinthians 6:9–10
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
- Revelation 21:27
But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
- Revelation 21:8
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.