Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
house	בֵּיתָ֑הּ bei.Tah	H1004	a house (in the greatest variation of applications · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
way	דַּרְכֵ֣י dar.Khei	H1870	a road (as trodden) · noun, common both genders plural construct
hell	שְׁא֣וֹל she.'ol	H7585	Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean re… · noun, common both genders singular absolute
down	יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת yo.re.Dot	H3381	to descend (literally · verb, qal active participle, feminine plural absolute
chambers	חַדְרֵי chad.rei-	H2315	an apartment (usually literal) · noun, common masculine plural construct
death	מָֽוֶת Ma.vet	H4194	death (natural or violent) · noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

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.
Proverbs 2:18-19 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
Revelation 22:15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from he…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:24–end

We have here the application of the foregoing story: "Hearken to me therefore, and not to such seducers (Pro 7:24); give ear to a father, and not to an enemy." 1. "Take good counsel when it is given you. Let not thy heart decline to her ways (Pro 7:25); never leave the paths of virtue, though strait and narrow, solitary and up-hill, for the way of the adulteress, though green, and broad, and crowded with company. Do not only keep thy feet from those ways, but let not so much as thy heart incline to them; never harbour a disposition this way, nor think otherwise than with abhorrence of such wicked practices as these. Let reason, and conscience, and the fear of God ruling in the heart, check t…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:26

Even the mightiest fail to resist her deathly allurements. Next: Proverbs Chapter 8

John Gill on Proverbs 7:27

Her house is the way to hell,.... Or "ways" (p); the broad highway to it; either to the grave, as "sheol" often signifies; or to hell itself, the place of the damned: to go into her house, and commit wickedness with her, is to take a step to destruction, a large stride towards hell; and, if grace prevent not, will bring a man thither. Who would go into such a house, and much less dwell there, which is the very suburbs of hell? going down to the chambers of death; to enter her chamber, to step into her bed, howsoever decked and adorned, entertaining and inviting it is, not only leads to the chambers of the grave, as the Targum; but to the lowest and innermost parts of hell; the apartments of…

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Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 7:26–end

The admonition, having its motive in that which goes before, is now founded on the emphatic finale: 26 For many are the slain whom she hath caused to fall, And many are her slain. 27 A multiplicity of ways to help is her house, Going down to the chambers of death. The translation "for many slain has she laid low" (Syr., Targ., Jerome, Luther) is also syntactically possible; for רבּים can be placed before its substantive after the manner of the demonstratives and numerals (e.g., Neh 9:28, cf. אחד, Sol 4:9), and the accentuation which requires two servants (the usual two Munachs) to the Athnach appears indeed thus to construe it. It is otherwise if רבים here meant magni (thus e.g., Ralbag, and…

The Church Fathers

Her house is the way down to Sheol, etc. But also concerning the Church, it says: The gates of hell will not prevail against it (Matt. XVI). Indeed, the innermost parts of death, the most severe torments of hell, are said to be sharper and darker, by which it is evident that heretics and fornicators are to be submerged. Just as it is said concerning the saints suffering adversities for the Lord in this life: And the jailer put them in the inner dungeon, that is, a more atrocious, fouler, and darker place.
— Bede, Commentary on Proverbs

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Dictionary and topics

Chastity · Consequences of associating with those devoid of — Consequences of associating with those devoid of
Harlot (Prostitute) · Shamelessness of — Shamelessness of
Hell · scriptures — scriptures
Lasciviousness · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Young Men · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Proverbs 7:27

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:24–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:26

John Gill on Proverbs 7:27

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 7:26–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Proverbs 7:27

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:24–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:26

John Gill on Proverbs 7:27

Keil & Delitzsch on Proverbs 7:26–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Proverbs 7:24-27

Rashi on Proverbs 7:23