The Meaning of Proverbs 9:13 Explained

Proverbs 9:13

KJV: A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

YLT: A foolish woman is noisy, Simple, and hath not known what.

Darby: The foolish woman is clamorous; she is stupid, and knoweth nothing.

ASV: The foolish woman is clamorous;'she is'simple, and knoweth nothing.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Proverbs 9:13?

MEANING: What does Proverbs 9:13 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Proverbs 9:13 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Proverbs 9:13?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

A foolish  woman  [is] clamorous:  [she is] simple,  and  knoweth  nothing. 

What does Proverbs 9:13 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 9:13 mean?

A woman is foolish clamorous [She is] simple and not knows what
אֵ֣שֶׁת כְּ֭סִילוּת הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת וּבַל־ יָ֥דְעָה מָּֽה

אֵ֣שֶׁת  A  woman  is 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct
Root: אִשָּׁה  
Sense: woman, wife, female.
כְּ֭סִילוּת  foolish 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: כְּסִילוּת  
Sense: foolishness, stupidity.
הֹֽמִיָּ֑ה  clamorous 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Participle, feminine singular
Root: הָמָה  
Sense: to murmur, growl, roar, cry aloud, mourn, rage, sound, make noise, tumult, be clamorous, be disquieted, be loud, be moved, be troubled, be in an uproar.
פְּ֝תַיּ֗וּת  [She  is]  simple 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: פְּתַיּוּת  
Sense: simplicity, naivete.
וּבַל־  and  not 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adverb
Root: בַּל 
Sense: not, hardly, else.
יָ֥דְעָה  knows 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: דָּעָה 
Sense: to know.

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