The Meaning of Proverbs 7:5 Explained

Proverbs 7:5

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

YLT: To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

Darby: that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

ASV: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Proverbs 7:5 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 7:5 mean?

That they may keep you from the woman immoral from the seductress with her words [who] flatters
לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה זָרָ֑ה מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ הֶחֱלִֽיקָה

לִ֭שְׁמָרְךָ  That  they  may  keep  you 
Parse: Preposition-l, Verb, Qal, Infinitive construct, second person masculine singular
Root: שָׁמַר  
Sense: to keep, guard, observe, give heed.
מֵאִשָּׁ֣ה  from  the  woman 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
זָרָ֑ה  immoral 
Parse: Adjective, feminine singular
Root: זוּר 
Sense: to be strange, be a stranger.
מִ֝נָּכְרִיָּ֗ה  from  the  seductress 
Parse: Preposition-m, Adjective, feminine singular
Root: נָכְרִי  
Sense: foreign, alien.
אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ  with  her  words 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct, third person feminine singular
Root: אֵמֶר 
Sense: utterance, speech, word, saying, promise, command.
הֶחֱלִֽיקָה  [who]  flatters 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: חָלַק 
Sense: to divide, share, plunder, allot, apportion, assign.

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