Wisdom Calls Aloud
Proverbs 1:21
In 11 translations
- BSB
- in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:Or from the top of the wall
- KJV
- She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
- WEB
- She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
- ASV
- She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
- LSV
- She calls at the head of the multitudes, || In the openings of the gates, || In the city she says her sayings:
- YLT
- At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
- DBY
- she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
- DRC
- At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
- GNV
- She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
- JPS
- She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
- LXXE
- And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- בְּרֹ֥אשׁ הֹמִיּ֗וֹת תִּ֫קְרָ֥א בְּפִתְחֵ֖י שְׁעָרִ֥ים בָּעִ֗יר אֲמָרֶ֥יהָ תֹאמֵֽר׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἐπʼ ἄκρων δὲ τειχέων κηρύσσεται, ἐπὶ δὲ πύλαις δυναστῶν παρεδρεύει, ἐπὶ δὲ πύλαις πόλεως θαῤῥοῦσα λέγει,
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- Acts 5:20“Go, stand in the temple courts and tell the people the full message of this new life.”
- Matthew 10:27What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops.
- Proverbs 9:3She has sent out her maidservants; she calls out from the heights of the city.
- Matthew 13:2Such large crowds gathered around Him that He got into a boat and sat down, while all the people stood on the shore.
- John 18:20“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
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