THEOSISProverbs 7:21Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
הִ֭טַּתּוּ בְּרֹ֣ב לִקְחָ֑הּ בְּחֵ֥לֶק שְׂ֝פָתֶ֗יהָ תַּדִּיחֶֽנּוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 5:3For the lips of a harlot are like a honeycomb dropping, and her throat is smoother than oil.
- Prov 7:5That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
- Luke 24:29But they constrained him, saying: Stay with us, because it is towards evening and the day is now far spent. And he went in with them.
- Ps 12 (11):2
- Judg 16:15And Dalila said to him: How dost thou say thou lovest me, when thy mind is not with me? Thou hast told me lies these three times, and wouldst not tell me wherein thy greatest strength lieth.
- Judg 16:17Then opening the truth of the thing, he said to her: The razor hath never come upon my head, for I am a Nazarite, that is to say, consecrated to God from my mother's womb: If my head be shaven, my strength shall depart from me, and I shall become weak, and shall be like other men.
- 2 Cor 5:14For the charity of Christ presseth us: judging this, that if one died for all, then all were dead.
- Prov 6:24That they may keep thee from the evil woman, and from the flattering tongue of the stranger.