The Meaning of Proverbs 7:18 Explained

Proverbs 7:18

KJV: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

YLT: Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

Darby: Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.

ASV: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Come,  let us take our fill  of love  until the morning:  let us solace  ourselves with loves. 

What does Proverbs 7:18 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 7

1  Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6  In an example of his own experience he shows
10  the cunning of a harlot
22  and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24  He detests such wickedness

What do the individual words in Proverbs 7:18 mean?

Come let us take our fill of love until morning let us delight ourselves with love
לְכָ֤ה נִרְוֶ֣ה דֹ֭דִים עַד־ הַבֹּ֑קֶר נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה בָּאֳהָבִֽים

לְכָ֤ה  Come 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular, third person feminine singular
Root: הָלַךְ  
Sense: to go, walk, come.
נִרְוֶ֣ה  let  us  take  our  fill 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Cohortative if contextual, first person common plural
Root: רָוָה  
Sense: to be satiated or saturated, have or drink one’s fill.
דֹ֭דִים  of  love 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: דֹּוד  
Sense: beloved, love, uncle.
עַד־  until 
Parse: Preposition
Root: עַד  
Sense: as far as, even to, until, up to, while, as far as.
הַבֹּ֑קֶר  morning 
Parse: Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: בֹּקֶר 
Sense: morning, break of day.
נִ֝תְעַלְּסָ֗ה  let  us  delight  ourselves 
Parse: Verb, Hitpael, Imperfect Cohortative, first person common plural
Root: עָלַס  
Sense: to rejoice.
בָּאֳהָבִֽים  with  love 
Parse: Preposition-b, Noun, masculine plural
Root: אֹהַב  
Sense: loved object.

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