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Selected Verse: Proverbs 1:21 - King James
Verse |
Translation |
Text |
Pr 1:21 |
King James |
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
The publicity further indicated by terms designating places of most common resort. |
Commentary on the Old Testament, by Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch [1857-78] |
המיּות (plur. of הומי, the ground-form of הומה, from המי = המה), "they who are making noise;" for the epithet is poetically used (Isa 22:2) as a substantive, crowded noisy streets or places. ראשׁ is the place from which on several sides streets go forth: cf. ras el-ain, the place where the well breaks forth; ras en-nahr, the place from which the stream divides itself; the sing. is meant distributively as little as at Pro 8:2. פּתח, if distinguished from שׁער (which also signifies cleft, breach), is the opening of the gate, the entrance by the gate. Four times the poet says that Wisdom goes forth preaching, and four times that she preaches publicly; the בּעיר used in five places implies that Wisdom preaches not in the field, before the few who there are met with, but in the city, which is full of people. |
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
Gates - Where magistrates sit in judgment, and people are assembled. The city - Not only in the gate, but in every part of the city. |
2 She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths.
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.