The Meaning of Proverbs 7:27 Explained

Proverbs 7:27

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

YLT: The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

Darby: Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

ASV: Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Proverbs 7:27 Mean?

Study Notes

hell
Heb. "Sheol,"
Sheol is, in the O.T., the place to which the dead go.
(1) Often, therefore, it is spoken of as the equivalent of the grave, merely, where all human activities cease; the terminus toward which all human life moves (e.g. Genesis 42:38 grave Job 14:13 grave Psalms 88:3 grave
(2) To the man "under the sun," the natural man, who of necessity judges from appearances, sheol seems no more than the grave-- the end and total cessation, not only of the activities of life, but of life itself. Ecclesiastes 9:5 ; Ecclesiastes 9:10
(3) But Scripture reveals sheol as a place of sorrow 2 Samuel 22:6 ; Psalms 18:5 ; Psalms 116:3 ; in which the wicked are turned Psalms 9:17 and where they are fully conscious; Isaiah 14:9-17 ; Ezekiel 32:21 see, especially, Jonah 2:2 what the belly of the great fish was to Jonah that sheol is to those who are therein). The sheol of the O.T. and hades of the N.T. (See Scofield " Luke 16:23 ") are identical.

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 7:27 mean?

The way to hell Her house [is] Descending to the chambers of death -
דַּרְכֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתָ֑הּ יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת אֶל־ חַדְרֵי־ מָֽוֶת פ

דַּרְכֵ֣י  The  way 
Parse: Noun, common plural construct
Root: דֶּרֶךְ  
Sense: way, road, distance, journey, manner.
שְׁא֣וֹל  to  hell 
Parse: Noun, common singular
Root: שְׁאֹול  
Sense: sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit.
בֵּיתָ֑הּ  Her  house  [is] 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine singular
Root: בַּיִת 
Sense: house.
יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת  Descending 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine plural
Root: יָרַד  
Sense: to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down.
חַדְרֵי־  the  chambers 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: חֶדֶר  
Sense: chamber, room, parlour, innermost or inward part, within.
מָֽוֶת  of  death 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָוֶת  
Sense: death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead.
פ  - 
Parse: Punctuation