Warnings about the Adulteress
Proverbs 7:6
In 11 translations
- BSB
- For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
- KJV
- ¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
- WEB
- For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
- ASV
- For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
- LSV
- For at a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement,
- YLT
- For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
- DBY
- For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
- DRC
- For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,
- GNV
- As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,
- JPS
- For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
- LXXE
- For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,
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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
- כִּ֭י בְּחַלּ֣וֹן בֵּיתִ֑י בְּעַ֖ד אֶשְׁנַבִּ֣י נִשְׁקָֽפְתִּי׃
- LXX-Br
- Ἀπὸ γὰρ θυρίδος ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτῆς εἰς τὰς πλατείας παρακύπτουσα,
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
AdulteryCasementWindowYoung MenLasciviousnessIgnoranceTemptationHouseProverbs, the Book ofPoetry, Hebrew
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Genesis 26:8When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
- Judges 5:28Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
- 2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).
Verse numbering differs between Bibles
- Content check: this verse also contains the text of KJV Prov.7.7.
- Content check: this verse also contains the text of KJV Prov.7.7. (transferred from brenton)