Proverbs 6:26
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Account Adulteress Another's Bread Cake Consumeth Goes Harlot Hired Hunt Hunteth Hunts Life Means Piece Precious Preys Prostitute Reduced Reduces Stalks Whorish Wife
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English Standard Version
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts down a precious life.

New American Standard Bible
For on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread, And an adulteress hunts for the precious life.

King James Bible
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For a prostitute's fee is only a loaf of bread, but an adulteress goes after a precious life.

International Standard Version
because the price of a whore is a loaf of bread, and an adulterous woman stalks a man's precious life.

NET Bible
for on account of a prostitute one is brought down to a loaf of bread, but the wife of another man preys on your precious life.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For the comparison of a woman who is a harlot is like a loaf of bread, and a man's wife hunts the precious soul.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
A prostitute's price is [only] a loaf of bread, but a married woman hunts for [your] life itself.

King James 2000 Bible
For by means of a harlot a man is reduced to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will prey upon his precious life.

American King James Version
For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

American Standard Version
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the price of a harlot is scarce one loaf: but the woman catcheth the precious soul of a man.

Darby Bible Translation
for by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a loaf of bread, and another's wife doth hunt for the precious soul.

English Revised Version
For on account of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

Webster's Bible Translation
For by means of a lewd woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

World English Bible
For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

Young's Literal Translation
For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.
Lexicon
For by means of
b`ad  (beh-ad')
in up to or over against; generally at, beside, among, behind, for, etc. -- about, at by (means of), for, over, through, up (-on), within.
a whorish
zanah  (zaw-naw')
to commit adultery; figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
woman
'ishshah  (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
a man is brought to a piece
kikkar  (kik-kawr')
loaf, morsel, piece, plain, talent.
of bread
lechem  (lekh'-em)
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it) -- (shew-)bread, eat, food, fruit, loaf, meat, victuals.
and the adulteress
'ishshah  (ish-shaw')
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman
'iysh  (eesh)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
will hunt
tsuwd  (tsood)
to lie alongside (i.e. in wait); by implication, to catch an animal (figuratively, men)
for the precious
yaqar  (yaw-kawr')
valuable (obj. or subj.) -- brightness, clear, costly, excellent, fat, honourable women, precious, reputation.
life
nephesh  (neh'-fesh)
a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
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