Proverbs 7:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Prov 23:28 : 28 Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Prov 9:14 : 14 And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
Jer 2:20 : 20 For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bonds; and thou saidst, I will not serve; for upon every high hill and under every green tree thou didst bow thyself, playing the harlot.
Jer 2:33 : 33 How trimmest thou thy way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women hast thou taught thy ways.
Jer 2:36 : 36 Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou shalt be ashamed of Egypt also, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.
Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up thine eyes unto the bare heights, and see; where hast thou not been lain with? By the ways hast thou sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 that thou hast built unto thee a vaulted place, and hast made thee a lofty place in every street. 25 Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.
Ezek 16:31 : 31 in that thou buildest thy vaulted place at the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street, and hast not been as a harlot, in that thou scornest hire.
Rev 18:3 : 3 For by {G1537} the wine of the wrath of her fornication all the nations are fallen; and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth waxed rich by the power of her wantonness.
Rev 18:23 : 23 and the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the princes of the earth; for with thy sorcery were all the nations deceived.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Prov 7:5-11
7 verses
87%
5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.
6For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
7And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
8Passing through the street near her corner; And he went the way to her house,
9In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10And, behold, there met him a woman With the attire of a harlot, and wily of heart.
11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:
Prov 7:13
85%
13So she caught him, and kissed him, [And] with an impudent face she said unto him:
Prov 9:13-16
4 verses
81%
13The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.
14And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
15To call to them that pass by, Who go right on their ways:
16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither; And as for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Prov 1:20-21
2 verses
79%
20Wisdom crieth aloud in the street; She uttereth her voice in the broad places;
21She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Prov 7:21-22
2 verses
79%
21With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.
22He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as [one in] fetters to the correction of the fool;
Prov 9:2-4
3 verses
79%
2She hath killed her beasts; She hath mingled her wine; She hath also furnished her table:
3She hath sent forth her maidens; She crieth upon the highest places of the city:
4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: As for him that is void of understanding, she saith to him,
Prov 8:2-3
2 verses
78%
2On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
3Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
Prov 7:25-27
3 verses
76%
25Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
26For she hath cast down many wounded: Yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
27Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
Prov 23:27-28
2 verses
76%
27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
28Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
Prov 5:8
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8Remove thy way far from her, And come not nigh the door of her house;
Eccl 7:26
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26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.
Prov 6:24-26
3 verses
74%
24To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.
25Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; Neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
Ezek 16:32
74%
32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!
Prov 2:16
74%
16To deliver thee from the strange woman, Even from the foreigner that flattereth with her words;
Prov 5:3-6
4 verses
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3For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:
4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
5Her feet go down to death; Her steps take hold on Sheol;
6So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, [and] she knoweth [it] not.
Prov 30:20
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20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.
Prov 2:18
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18For her house inclineth unto death, And her paths unto the dead;
Ps 55:11
73%
11Wickedness is in the midst thereof: Oppression and guile depart not from its streets.
Prov 3:17
72%
17Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.
Prov 5:20
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20For why shouldest thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, And embrace the bosom of a foreigner?
Prov 22:14
72%
14The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: He that is abhorred of Jehovah shall fall therein.
Prov 27:16
71%
16He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.
Jer 6:7
71%
7As a well casteth forth its waters, so she casteth forth her wickedness: violence and destruction is heard in her; before me continually is sickness and wounds.
Job 39:29
71%
29From thence she spieth out the prey; Her eyes behold it afar off.
Hos 2:6
71%
6Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will build a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.
Prov 21:9
71%
9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
Hos 2:10
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10And now will I uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of my hand.
Song 3:2
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2[ I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.