Bible Verse Dictionary
Proverbs 5:20 - Why
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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And why | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
wilt thou my son | H1121 | בֵּן |
[Noun Masculine] a son (as a builder of the family {name}) in the widest sense (of literal and figurative {relationship} including {grandson} subject: {nation} quality or {condition} {etc.} (like {H1 } {H251 } etc.) |
be ravished | H7686 | שָׁגָה |
[Verb] to stray (causatively {mislead }) usually (figuratively) to {mistake} especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication) to {reel} (figuratively) be enraptured |
with a strange woman | H2114 | זוּר |
[Verb] to turn aside (especially for lodging); hence to be a {foreigner} strange: profane; specifically (active participle) to commit adultery |
and embrace | H2263 | חָבַק |
[Verb] to clasp (the hands or in embrace) |
the bosom | H2436 | חֵיק |
[Noun Masculine] the bosom (literally or figuratively) |
of a stranger | H5237 | נׇכְרִי |
[Adjective] {strange} in a variety of degrees and applications ({foreign } non-relative: {adulterous} {different } wonderful) |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.