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Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

KJV

ut custodiant te a muliere mala, et a blanda lingua extraneæ.

Vulgate

τοῦ διαφυλάσσειν σε ἀπὸ γυναικὸς ὑπάνδρου καὶ ἀπὸ διαβολῆς γλώσσης ἀλλοτρίας.

LXX

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner’s tongue.

ASV

לִ֭/שְׁמָרְ/ךָ מֵ/אֵ֣שֶׁת רָ֑ע מֵֽ֝/חֶלְקַ֗ת לָשׁ֥וֹן נָכְרִיָּֽה

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

6 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

וֹ
v
noun · 780×
חֶלְקַ֥ת
chlqt
noun · 29×
ם
m
noun · 116×
נָכְרִיָּֽה
nkryh
adjective · 46×
רָ֑ע
r'
verb · 664×
שֹׁמְרֵ֥י
shmry
verb · 467×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 6:18 — Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
  • 1Kgs 11:1 — But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
  • Eccl 7:26 — And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
  • Exod 20:17 — Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
  • Prov 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 2:16 — To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger which flattereth with her words;
  • Prov 5:3 — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 5:3 — For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
  • Prov 5:20 — And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
  • Prov 7:5 — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
  • Prov 7:5 — That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
  • Prov 22:14 — The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
  • Prov 26:28 — A lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it; and a flattering mouth worketh ruin.