The Meaning of Proverbs 9:2 Explained

Proverbs 9:2

KJV: She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

YLT: She hath slaughtered her slaughter, She hath mingled her wine, Yea, she hath arranged her table.

Darby: she hath slaughtered her cattle, she hath mingled her wine, she hath also prepared her table;

ASV: She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:

KJV Reverse Interlinear

She hath killed  her beasts;  she hath mingled  her wine;  she hath also furnished  her table. 

What does Proverbs 9:2 Mean?

Context Summary

Proverbs 9:1-18 - Two Contrasted Invitations
There is an age-long competition between Wisdom and Folly, Virtue and Vice. The palace of Wisdom is very attractive-well built and well furnished. It is reared upon seven well-hewn marble pillars, in a quadrangular form, the entrance being left wide-open. An eternal mansion, it is stable and beautiful. Great preparations are made for the feast, which is open to all-in striking contrast to the private supper to which Vice allures the unwary youth. The beautiful owner also sends forth her maidens into the public thoroughfares to give free invitations to all who will accept them. See Matthew 22:1, etc.
Only to the simple or child-hearted, and not to the scorner, is the invitation addressed. Wisdom lets the scorner pass, because a word to him would only recoil on herself, and would add to his wickedness. To scoff at things which are holy and scorn the divine power is to risk the sin that is never forgiven. Such is the man who enters the feast without the wedding garment. [source]

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 9

1  The discipline
4  and the doctrine of wisdom
13  The custom
16  and error of folly

What do the individual words in Proverbs 9:2 mean?

She has slaughtered her meat she has mixed her wine also she has furnished her table
טָבְחָ֣ה טִ֭בְחָהּ מָסְכָ֣ה יֵינָ֑הּ אַ֝֗ף עָֽרְכָ֥ה שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ

טָבְחָ֣ה  She  has  slaughtered 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: טָבַח  
Sense: to slaughter, slay, butcher, kill ruthlessly.
טִ֭בְחָהּ  her  meat 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: טֶבַח 
Sense: slaughter, slaughtering, animal.
מָסְכָ֣ה  she  has  mixed 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: מָסַךְ  
Sense: to mix, mingle, produce by mixing.
יֵינָ֑הּ  her  wine 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: יַיִן  
Sense: wine.
אַ֝֗ף  also 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אַף  
Sense: also, yea, though, so much the more adv.
עָֽרְכָ֥ה  she  has  furnished 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: עָרַךְ  
Sense: to arrange, set or put or lay in order, set in array, prepare, order, ordain, handle, furnish, esteem, equal, direct, compare.
שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ  her  table 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: שֻׁלְחָן  
Sense: table.