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Proverbs 7:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Proverbs 7:12 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Proverbs 7:12 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/proverbs/7/12.

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Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    At time in the street, at time in the open areas, and beside every corner she lies in wait.)

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, And lieth in wait at every corner.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner)
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) --
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now in an out-place, now in broad places, || And she lies in wait near every corner)—
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    Now in the streets, then in the market place, and at every corner she waited in ambush.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    At time in the street, at time in the open areas, and beside every corner she lies in wait.)
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    One moment she'd be walking the streets, the next she'd be there in the town squares, loitering at every corner.)
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.

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Shared distinctive vocabulary

פִּנָּ֣ה corner H6438 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • תֶאֱרֹֽב Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • פַּ֤עַם time H6471 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 21 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer here. See the side-by-side →

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 8 Hebrew tokens and 13 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to Proverbs 7:12 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Proverbs 23:28 Yes, she lies in wait like a robber, And increases the unfaithful among men.
  • Proverbs 9:14 She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,
  • Revelation 18:3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
  • Jeremiah 2:20 For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
  • Jeremiah 2:33 How trimmest you your way to seek love! therefore even the wicked women have you taught your ways.
  • Jeremiah 2:36 Why go you about so much to change your way? you shall be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.
  • Jeremiah 3:2 Lift up your eyes to the bare heights, and see; where have you not been lain with? By the ways have you sat for them, as an Arabian in the wilderness; and you have polluted the land with your prostitution and with your wickedness.
  • Ezekiel 16:24–25 that you have built to you a vaulted place, and have made you a lofty place in every street.
  • Ezekiel 16:31 in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.
  • Revelation 18:23 The light of a lamp will shine no more at all in you. The voice of the bridegroom and of the bride will be heard no more at all in you; for your merchants were the princes of the earth; for with your sorcery all the nations were deceived.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Here the Septuagint runs noticeably longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 21 words vs World English Bible 15. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Proverbs 7:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

פַּ֤עַם בַּח֗וּץ פַּ֥עַם בָּרְחֹב֑וֹת וְאֵ֖צֶל כָּל פִּנָּ֣ה תֶאֱרֹֽב

Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, And lurking at every corner.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Proverbs 7:12 Septuagint · lemma form

χρόνος γάρ τις ἔξω ῥέμβω χρόνος δέ ἐν πλατύς παρά πᾶς γωνία ἐνεδρεύω

For at one time she wanders without, and at another time she lies in wait in the streets, at every corner.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, The Pulpit Commentary discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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Commentary

Notes on Proverbs 7:12 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Pro 7:12 Now [is she] without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

Ver. 12. Now she is without.] {See Trapp on "Pro 7:11"} Further observe, that the former faults - loudness of language, stubbornness against a husband’s lawful commands and restraints, and this of gadding up and down to see and to be seen - albeit they be not certain signs, yet they are strong presumptions of a whorish disposition.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

7:12 Prostitutes commonly solicited business in public areas such as markets and at every corner of busy streets (e.g., Gen 38:13-16).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 12. Now is she without] She is continually exposing herself, and showing by her gait and gestures what she is, and what she wants. These two verses are a parenthesis, intended to show the character of the woman.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

12. without … streets] Rather, in the streets, in the open spaces, or squares.

corner] Where two or more ways meet, and there is therefore more likelihood of passers-by. Comp. Mat_6:5.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

So she caught him, and kissed him,.... The young man that went near her corner where she was plying, or in the way to her house, where she was sitting, or standing, waiting and watching for such an opportunity, for such a person, as a prey to fasten on; and no sooner she saw him, and come up to him, but, without any ceremony or address, she laid hold upon him, as the word (l) signifies, threw her arms about his neck, and embraced him in them; and, what is unusual for women to do, kissed him, in order to stir up wanton affections and impure desires in him;

and with an impudent face; or, "and she strengthened her face" (m); rubbed her forehead, put on a brasen face, a whore's front; see Jer 3:3. And

said unto him; accosted him in the following manner, without shame or blushing.

(l) "apprehendit eum", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens. (m) "et roboravit facies suas", Montanus; "vultumque suum obfirmavit", Schultens, so Michaelis; "obfirmabat", Cocceius.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Without; standing or waiting without or nigh the door of her house.

In the streets; in places of resort.

At every corner; at the corners of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Now is she without, now in the streets. At one moment outside her own door, at another in the open street. Septuagint: "At one time she roams without (exw rembetai )." The woman is represented not as a common prostitute, but as a licentious wife, who, in her unbridled lustfulness, acts the part of a harlot. Lieth in wait at every corner; seeking to entice some victim. Then the narrative proceeds; the writer returns to what he beheld on the occasion to which he refers.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Without - Without the door of her house. Corner - Of the streets, where she might either conceal or discover herself, as she saw fit.

John Wesley, Explanatory Notes Upon the Whole Bible (1754–1765) — public domain. Text via the GEBible commentary corpus.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Proverbs, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pinnâh (“corner”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word pinnâh carries the sense “corner.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. How does Exodus 27:2, which shares the word «corner», read alongside this verse?
  3. What does the repetition of “time” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
  4. The Septuagint runs longer here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. «תֶאֱרֹֽב» is a Qal Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  7. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Tyndale Open Study Notes read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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