Proverbs 7:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

📖 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

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• 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.)

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

• 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 as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
• Prov 9:14 : 14 For she sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
• Jer 2:20 : 20 For from of old I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree you wandered, playing the harlot.
• Jer 2:33 : 33 Why do you beautify your way to seek love? therefore you have also taught the wicked ones your ways.
• Jer 2:36 : 36 Why do you go about so much to change your way? you also shall be ashamed of Egypt, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
• Jer 3:2 : 2 Lift up your eyes to the high places and see where you have not been violated. On the roads you have sat for them, like an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your whoredoms and your wickedness.
• Ezek 16:24-25 : 24 That you have also built yourself an eminent place, and have made yourself a high place in every street. 25 You have built your high place at every head of the way, and have made your beauty to be abhorred, and have opened your feet to everyone that passed by, and multiplied your whoredoms.
• Ezek 16:31 : 31 In that you build your eminent place at the head of every way, and make your high place in every street; and have not been as a harlot, that scorns payment;
• Rev 18:3 : 3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich through the abundance of her luxuries.
• Rev 18:23 : 23 And the light of a lamp shall shine no more at all in you; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in you: for your merchants were the great men of the earth; for by your sorceries were all nations deceived.