Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death. New Living Translation Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death. English Standard Version Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. Berean Standard Bible Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. King James Bible Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. New King James Version Her house is the way to hell, Descending to the chambers of death. New American Standard Bible Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death. NASB 1995 Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death. NASB 1977 Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death. Legacy Standard Bible The ways to Sheol are in her house, Descending to the chambers of death. Amplified Bible Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death. Christian Standard Bible Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. Holman Christian Standard Bible Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. American Standard Version Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death. Contemporary English Version Her house is a one-way street leading straight down to the world of the dead. English Revised Version Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. GOD'S WORD® Translation Her home is the way to hell and leads to the darkest vaults of death. Good News Translation If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death. International Standard Version Her house leads to Sheol, descending to death's catacombs. Majority Standard Bible Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. NET Bible Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death. New Heart English Bible Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. Webster's Bible Translation Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. World English Bible Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe ways of Sheol—her house, "" Going down to inner chambers of death! Young's Literal Translation The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death! Smith's Literal Translation Her house the ways to hades, going down to the chambers of death. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleHer house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death. Catholic Public Domain Version Her household is the way to Hell, reaching even to the inner places of death. New American Bible Her house is a highway to Sheol, leading down into the chambers of death. New Revised Standard Version Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThe ways to her house are the ways to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death. Peshitta Holy Bible Translated The paths of her house are the paths of Sheol, of those descending to the chambers of death. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Her house is the way to the nether-world, Going down to the chambers of death. Brenton Septuagint Translation Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Warnings about the Adulteress…26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. 27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death. Cross References Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. Proverbs 2:18-19 For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits. / None who go to her return or negotiate the paths of life. Proverbs 9:18 But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol. Proverbs 6:26 For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. Proverbs 23:27-28 For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well. / Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men. Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared. Isaiah 5:14 Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers! Jeremiah 5:8-9 They are well-fed, lusty stallions, each neighing after his neighbor’s wife. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? Ezekiel 13:18 and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own? Hosea 4:11-14 to promiscuity, wine, and new wine, which take away understanding. / My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery. ... Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. / But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it. Matthew 23:33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? Luke 13:24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. Romans 6:21-23 What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death. / But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. / For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. Treasury of Scripture Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death. Proverbs 2:18,19 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead… Proverbs 5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs 9:18 But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell. Jump to Previous Chambers Death Descending Grave Hell Highway House Inner Leading Nether-World Rooms Sheol Underworld Way WaysJump to Next Chambers Death Descending Grave Hell Highway House Inner Leading Nether-World Rooms Sheol Underworld Way WaysProverbs 7 1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom6. In an example of his own experience he shows 10. the cunning of a harlot 22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton 24. He detests such wickedness Her house This phrase refers to the dwelling place of the adulterous woman described throughout Proverbs 7. In a broader sense, it symbolizes the allure of sin and temptation. The Hebrew word for "house" (בַּיִת, bayit) often signifies not just a physical structure but also a household or family. In this context, it represents the environment or lifestyle that leads one away from righteousness. Historically, the house was a place of safety and refuge, but here it is depicted as a trap, a place where moral and spiritual danger lurks. is the road to Sheol descending to the chambers of death
Hebrew Her houseבֵּיתָ֑הּ (bê·ṯāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 1004: A house is the road דַּרְכֵ֣י (dar·ḵê) Noun - common plural construct Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action to Sheol, שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl) Noun - common singular Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death) descending יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת (yō·rə·ḏō·wṯ) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend to אֶל־ (’el-) Preposition Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to the chambers חַדְרֵי־ (ḥaḏ·rê-) Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's 2315: A chamber, room of death. מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin Links Proverbs 7:27 NIVProverbs 7:27 NLT Proverbs 7:27 ESV Proverbs 7:27 NASB Proverbs 7:27 KJV Proverbs 7:27 BibleApps.com Proverbs 7:27 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 7:27 Chinese Bible Proverbs 7:27 French Bible Proverbs 7:27 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol (Prov. Pro Pr) |
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