Proverbs 8:3
in Proverbs 8Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
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ASV
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
KJV
She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors.
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This verse in Proverbs 8
Commentary
6 notes on this verseGates - The places of judgment, and of the confluence of people. The entry - To invite passengers at their first coming and to conduct them to her house.
This site's exposition
Doth not wisdom cry
on Proverbs 8:1-5
Against the strange woman of chapter 7, who waits in the twilight for one young man, wisdom cries in the top of high places, at the gates, at the entry of the city, to everyone: unto you, O men, I call. The contrast is the chapter's frame and the bench draws it: sin whispers privately and wisdom shouts publicly, so no one perishes for want of an invitation. Her audience is named without flattery, the simple and the fools, the very ones chapter 7 watched walk into the trap.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
At the very gates she speaks, saying: O men, etc. She cries out to men, that is, to the vigorous hearers of the word in both sexes. For those who are of a womanish, i.e., weak mind, cannot grasp the words of wisdom.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,
She crieth at the gates,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
She crieth at the gates - This might be well applied to the preaching of Jesus Christ and his apostles, and their faithful successors in the Christian ministry. He went to the temple, and proclaimed the righteousness of the Most High: he did the same in the synagogues, on the mountains, by the sea-side, in the villages, in the streets of the cities, and in private houses. His disciples followed his track: in the same way, and in the same spirit, they proclaimed the unsearchable riches of Christ.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לְיַד־ | leyad- | to [the] side of | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| שְׁעָרִ֥ים | shearim | [the] gates | H8179 → | 374 times |
| לְפִי־ | lefi- | to [the] opening of | H6310 → | 498 times |
| קָ֑רֶת | karet | [the] town | H7176 → | 5 times |
| מְב֖וֹא | mevo' | [the] entrance of | H3996 → | |
| פְתָחִ֣ים | fetachim | [the] doorways | H6607 → | 164 times |
| תָּרֹֽנָּה׃ | taronah | they cry aloud | H7442 → | 54 times |
לְיַד־to [the] side of
leyad-H3027 →1618 times
שְׁעָרִ֥ים[the] gates
shearimH8179 →374 times
לְפִי־to [the] opening of
lefi-H6310 →498 times
קָ֑רֶת[the] town
karetH7176 →5 times
מְב֖וֹא[the] entrance of
mevo'H3996 →
פְתָחִ֣ים[the] doorways
fetachimH6607 →164 times
תָּרֹֽנָּה׃they cry aloud
taronahH7442 →54 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
Acts 5:20“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
it leads to
- John 6:63
The Spirit gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life.
- John 6:68
Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.
- 1 John 5:11–12
And this is that testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
- Matthew 21:23
When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And…
- 1 John 1:1–3
That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our own eyes, which we have gazed upon and touched with our own hands—this is the Word of life.
- John 6:63
Through
John 18:20“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
it leads to
- Isaiah 48:16
Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied…
- John 7:26
Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
- Matthew 4:23
Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people.
- Isaiah 48:16
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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); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.