Proverbs 7:6
in Proverbs 7For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
KJV
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
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This verse in Proverbs 7
Commentary
6 notes on this verseI looked through my casement - The casement is a small aperture in a large window, or a window opening on hinges. Here it means the lattice, for they had no glass windows in the East. And the latticed windows produced a double advantage 1. Making the apartments sufficiently private; and 2. Admitting fresh air to keep them cool.
This site's exposition
at the window of my house I looked
on Proverbs 7:6-9
The father becomes an eyewitness at his own casement, and what he sees is named without softening: a young man void of understanding, passing near her corner at the hour the text itself lingers over, the twilight, the evening, the black and dark night. Gill and Bridges both mark the route as the young man's own choice; he is not ambushed on a public road but walks the way to her house, so the fault the chapter charges is the walking, not only what waits at the end of it. The failing named is understanding withheld, not innocence removed by force.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
For from the window of my house I looked through the lattice, etc. Aptly, however, does Solomon say he looked from the window of his house through the lattice, to judge the deeds of the little ones. For one who looks from a window through …
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
For at the window of my house,.... This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly and weakness of a young man ensnared, and the ruin he is brought into by her.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
For--or, "Since," introducing an example to illustrate the warning, which, whether a narrative or a parable, is equally pertinent. window--or, "opening" looked--literally, "watched earnestly" (Jud 5:28). casement--or, "lattice."
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Casement - The latticed opening of an Eastern house, overlooking the street (compare Jdg 5:28).
The words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּ֭י | ki | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| בְּחַלּ֣וֹן | bechalon | at [the] window of | H2474 → | |
| בֵּיתִ֑י | beiti | house my | H1004 → | 2046 times |
| בְּעַ֖ד | bead | through | H1157 → | 105 times |
| אֶשְׁנַבִּ֣י | ʾeshnabi | lattice my | H822 → | |
| נִשְׁקָֽפְתִּי׃ | nishkafeti | I looked down | H8259 → |
כִּ֭יfor
kiH3588 →4482 times
בְּחַלּ֣וֹןat [the] window of
bechalonH2474 →
בֵּיתִ֑יhouse my
beitiH1004 →2046 times
בְּעַ֖דthrough
beadH1157 →105 times
אֶשְׁנַבִּ֣יlattice my
ʾeshnabiH822 →
נִשְׁקָֽפְתִּי׃I looked down
nishkafetiH8259 →
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
2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him…
it leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- 1 Chronicles 15:29
As the ark of the covenant of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him…
- 2 Samuel 3:14
Then David sent messengers to say to Ish-bosheth son of Saul, “Give me back my wife, Michal, whom I betrothed to myself for a hundred Philistine foreskins.”
- Acts 2:13
But others mocked them and said, “They are drunk on new wine!”
- Psalms 69:7
For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
Through
Genesis 26:8When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
it leads to
- Song of Solomon 2:9
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 62:5
For as a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you; and as a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
- Judges 5:28
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
- Song of Solomon 2:9
About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Proverbs; Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).