Proverbs 31:24
New International Version
She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.

New Living Translation
She makes belted linen garments and sashes to sell to the merchants.

English Standard Version
She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant.

Berean Standard Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.

King James Bible
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

New King James Version
She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies sashes for the merchants.

New American Standard Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies belts to the tradesmen.

NASB 1995
She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies belts to the tradesmen.

NASB 1977
She makes linen garments and sells them, And supplies belts to the tradesmen.

Legacy Standard Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them, And gives belts to the tradesmen.

Amplified Bible
She makes [fine] linen garments and sells them; And supplies sashes to the merchants.

Christian Standard Bible
She makes and sells linen garments; she delivers belts to the merchants.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
She makes and sells linen garments; she delivers belts to the merchants.

American Standard Version
She maketh linen garments and selleth them, And delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
She has made and sold fine linen and has given girdles to the Canaanites.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
She makes fine linens, and sells girdles to the Chananites: she opens her mouth heedfully and with propriety, and controls her tongue.

Contemporary English Version
She makes clothes to sell to the shop owners.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She made fine linen, and sold it, end delivered a girdle to the Chanaanite.

English Revised Version
She maketh linen garments and selleth them; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"She makes linen garments and sells them and delivers belts to the merchants.

Good News Translation
She makes clothes and belts, and sells them to merchants.

International Standard Version
She designs and sells linen garments, supplying accessories to clothiers.

JPS Tanakh 1917
She maketh linen garments and selleth them; And delivereth girdles unto the merchant.

Literal Standard Version
She has made linen garments, and sells, | And she has given a girdle to the merchant.

Majority Standard Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.

New American Bible
She makes garments and sells them, and stocks the merchants with belts.

NET Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies the merchants with sashes.

New Revised Standard Version
She makes linen garments and sells them; she supplies the merchant with sashes.

New Heart English Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

Webster's Bible Translation
She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles to the merchant.

World English Bible
She makes linen garments and sells them, and delivers sashes to the merchant.

Young's Literal Translation
Linen garments she hath made, and selleth, And a girdle she hath given to the merchant.

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Context
The Virtues of a Noble Woman
23Her husband is known at the city gate, where he sits among the elders of the land. 24She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants. 25Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.…

Cross References
Judges 14:12
"Let me tell you a riddle," Samson said to them. "If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.

Proverbs 31:25
Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.


Treasury of Scripture

She makes fine linen, and sells it; and delivers girdles to the merchant.

Proverbs 31:13,19
She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands…

1 Kings 10:28
And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.

Ezekiel 27:16
Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of the wares of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and coral, and agate.

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Proverbs 31
1. Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance
6. The afflicted are to be comforted and defended
10. The praise and properties of a good wife














Verse 24. - SAMECH. She maketh fine linen, and selleth it. The word for "fine linen" is sadin, not the same as in ver. 22. but equivalent to σινδών, and denoting linen garments; Delitzsch calls it "body linen" (comp. Judges 14:12, 13; Isaiah 3:23). Delivereth girdles unto the merchant; literally, unto the Canaanite; i.e. the Phoenician merchant, a generic name for all traders (see Isaiah 23:8; Zechariah 14:21). Girdles were necessary articles of attire with the flowing robes of Eastern dress The common kind were made of leather, as is the use at the present day; but a more costly article was of linen curiously worked in gold and silver thread, and studded with jewels and gold (see 2 Samuel 18:11; Daniel 10:5). So Virgil (AEneid,' 9:359) speaks of "aurea bullis cingula." We read of Queen Parysatis having certain villages assigned her for girdle money, εἰς ζώνην δεδομέναι (Xen., 'Anab.,' 1:4, 9). Cicero alludes to the same custom in his Verrine oration (Proverbs 3:33): "Solere aiunt barbaros reges Persarum ac Syrorum plures uxores habere, his autem uxoribus civitates attribuere hocmodo: haec civitas mulieri iu redimiculum proebeat, haec in collum, haec in crines" (comp. Plato, 'Alcib. I.,' p. 123, B). Such rich and elaborately worked girdles the mistress could readily barter with Phoenician merchants, who would give in exchange purple (ver. 22) and other articles of use or luxury. On this passage St. Gregory thus moralizes: "What is signified by a garment of fine linen, but the subtle texture of holy preaching? In which men rest softly, because the mind of the faithful is refreshed therein by heavenly hope. Whence also the animals are shown to Peter in a linen sheet, because the souls of sinners mercifully gathered together are enclosed in the gentle quiet of faith. The Church therefore made and sold this fine garment, because she inparted in words that faith which she had woven by belief; and received from unbelievers a life of upright conversation. And she delivered a girdle to the Canaanite, because by the might of the righteousness she displayed, she constrained the lax doings of the Gentile world, in order that that might be maintained in their doings which is commanded. 'Let your loins be girded about'" ('Moral.,' 33:33).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
She makes
עָ֭שְׂתָה (‘ā·śə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

linen garments
סָדִ֣ין (sā·ḏîn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5466: A wrapper, shirt

and sells [them];
וַתִּמְכֹּ֑ר (wat·tim·kōr)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 4376: To sell

she delivers
נָתְנָ֥ה (nā·ṯə·nāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 5414: To give, put, set

sashes
וַ֝חֲג֗וֹר (wa·ḥă·ḡō·wr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2289: Belted

to the merchants.
לַֽכְּנַעֲנִֽי׃ (lak·kə·na·‘ă·nî)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3669: Canaanite -- inhabitant of Canaan


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