Proverbs 7 · Verse 5

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 7:5, King James Version

Proverbs 7:5 in other translations

BSBthat they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
WEBthat they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
ASVThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
YLTTo preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.
DARBYthat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.
BBESo that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
WebsterThat they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

What does Proverbs 7:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. The design of the teaching (compare Pr 2:16; 6:24).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 5 The strange woman - The prostitute, the adulteress.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5

We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be…

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Proverbs 7:5 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.

לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָLish.ma.re.khato keep youH8104
מֵאִשָּׁ֣הme.'i.Shahfrom a womanH802
זָרָ֑הza.RahstrangeH2114
מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗הmi.na.khe.ri.Yahfrom a foreign [woman]H5237
אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ'a.ma.Rei.ha[who] words herH561
הֶחֱלִֽיקָה\׃he.che.Li.kahshe makes smoothH2505

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

Cross references for Proverbs 7:5

  • Proverbs 2:16

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

  • Proverbs 6:24

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

  • Proverbs 5:3

    For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
2:16; 5:3; 6:24

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

Context

  • Proverbs 7:4

    Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

  • Proverbs 7:5

    That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

  • Proverbs 7:6

    For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

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Proverbs 7:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Para que te guarden de la mujer ajena, y de la extraña que ablanda sus palabras.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		pour te garder de la femme étrangère, de la foraine qui use de paroles flatteuses.
German
Elberfelder 1871		damit sie dich bewahre vor dem fremden Weibe, vor der Fremden, die ihre Worte glättet. -
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		ut custodiant te a muliere extranea, et ab aliena quæ verba sua dulcia facit.