Proverbs 23:28
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁכַב
shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
יָסַף
yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
בָּגַד
bâgad
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
אֱנוֹשׁ
ʼĕnôwsh
a man in general (singly or collectively)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָסַף yâçaph
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Study H3254 →בָּגַד bâgad
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
Study H898 →שָׁכַב shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Study H7901 →Cross References
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.
Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein.
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whor...
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
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