Proverbs 2:16 BSB — MannaFest

Proverbs 2:16

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;

KJV

To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;

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Commentary

2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

To deliver thee from the strange woman,.... As the Gospel of Christ and its doctrines, or the instructions of wisdom, are a means of delivering persons from the evil man, his company, ways, and works; so from a naughty woman, an adulteress, called a "strange" woman; not because of another nation, or unknown, but because she belongs to another person, and not to him whom she entices into her embraces.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The stranger which flattereth with her words - החליקה hechelikah, she that smooths with her words. The original intimates the glib, oily speeches of a prostitute. The English lick is supposed to be derived from the original word.

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Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לְ֭הַצִּ֣ילְךָ	le.ha.Tzi.le.kha	to deliver you	H5337 →
מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה	me.'i.Shah	from a woman	H802 →
זָרָ֑ה	za.Rah	strange	H2114 →
מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה	mi.na.khe.ri.Yah	from a foreign [woman]	H5237 →
אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ	'a.ma.Rei.ha	[who] words her	H561 →
הֶחֱלִֽיקָה׃	he.che.Li.kah	she makes smooth	H2505 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 7:26
And 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…
leads to
- 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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 5:3–5
  Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
  To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…
- Proverbs 2:18–19
  For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.
Through
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.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 7:26
  And 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…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Proverbs 23:27
  For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.
- Proverbs 6:24–29
  to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Through
Proverbs 6:24
to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
leads to
- Proverbs 5:3
  Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Proverbs

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Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

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About Proverbs