Proverbs 7 · Verse 27

Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.
Proverbs 7:27, King James Version

Proverbs 7:27 in other translations

BSBHer house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.
WEBHer house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.
ASVHer house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
YLTThe ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!
DARBYHer house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.
BBEHer house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
WebsterHer house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

What does Proverbs 7:27 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:26-27

26-27. Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 27 Her 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.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27

Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same…

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Proverbs 7:27 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

דַּרְכֵ֣יdar.Khei[is] [the] ways ofH1870
שְׁא֣וֹלshe.'olSheolH7585
בֵּיתָ֑הּbei.Tahhouse herH1004
יֹ֝רְד֗וֹתyo.re.Dot[which] go downH3381
אֶל\־'el-toH413
חַדְרֵי\־chad.rei-[the] chambers ofH2315
מָֽוֶת\׃\ \פMa.vetdeathH4194

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 7:27

  • Proverbs 5:5

    Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

  • Proverbs 9:18

    But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

  • Revelation 22:15

    For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

  • Proverbs 2:18-19

    For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead. None that go unto her return again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.

  • Ecclesiastes 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.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:18,19; 5:5; 9:18; Ec 7:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Proverbs 7:26

    For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

  • Proverbs 7:27

    Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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Proverbs 7:27 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Caminos del sepulcro son su casa, que descienden á las cámaras de la muerte.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Ce sont les voies du shéol que sa maison; elles descendent dans les chambres de la mort.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Ihr Haus sind Wege zum Scheol, die hinabführen zu den Kammern des Todes.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Viæ inferi domus ejus, penetrantes in interiora mortis.