Proverbs 7:12

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Now in the street, now in the squares, at every corner, she lurks.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פַּ֤עַם ׀ בַּח֗וּץ פַּ֥עַם בָּרְחֹב֑וֹת וְאֵ֖צֶל כָּל־פִּנָּ֣ה תֶאֱרֹֽב׃

Transliteration

paʿam in the ḥûṣ, paʿam in the rĕḥōḇôṯ, and near all-pinnāh she teʾĕrōḇ.

Grammar Details

• *paʿam*: noun, feminine singular - time/occurrence/step
• *ḥûṣ*: noun, masculine singular - outside/street
• *rĕḥōḇôṯ*: noun, feminine plural - wide places/squares/plazas
• *ʾēṣel*: preposition - near/beside
• *pinnāh*: noun, feminine singular - corner
• *teʾĕrōḇ*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - she lies in wait/lurks

Word Meanings

• *paʿam*: time/occurrence/instance/once
• *teʾĕrōḇ*: lies in wait/lurks/ambushes

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Sometimes she is outside, now in the streets, and lies in wait at every corner.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now{H6471} she is in the streets,{H7339} now{H6471} in the broad{H7339} places, And lieth in wait{H693} at{H681} every corner.){H6438}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Now{H6471} is she without{H2351}, now{H6471} in the streets{H7339}, and lieth in wait{H693}{(H8799)} at{H681} every corner{H6438}.)

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  now is she without, now i ye stretes, & lurketh i euery corner)

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Nowe is she without, nowe in the streates, and lyeth in wayte at euery corner.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• American Standard Version (1901)

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

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  at one time outside, at another in the wide plazas, and by every corner she lies in wait.)

Referenced Verses

• Prov 23:28 : 28 She also lies in wait like a robber, and increases the unfaithful among men.
• Prov 9:14 : 14 She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
• Jer 2:20 : 20 For long ago I broke your yoke and tore off your bonds, but you said, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
• Jer 2:33 : 33 How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women you have taught your ways.
• Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about changing your direction so much? You will be disappointed by Egypt as you were by Assyria.
• Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up your eyes to the barren heights and see. Where have you not been violated? By the roads you sat waiting for lovers, like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled the land with your prostitution and wickedness.
• Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 You built yourselves a mound and made high places at every street corner. 25 At the head of every street, you built your high places. You degraded your beauty by spreading your legs to every passerby and multiplied your acts of prostitution.
• Ezek 16:31 : 31 When you built your mounds at the head of every road and made your high places in every street, you were not like a prostitute, because you scorned payment.
• Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the abundance of her luxurious living.
• Rev 18:23 : 23 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. The voice of a bridegroom and bride will never be heard in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.