Proverbs 7:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

Proverbs 7:4 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 2:2-4
So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; …
Proverbs 4:6-8
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. …
Job 17:14
I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.
Song of Solomon 8:1
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
Luke 11:27-28
And it came to pass, as he spake these things, a certain woman of the company lifted up her voice, and said unto him, Blessed is the womb that bare thee, and the paps which thou hast sucked. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, Prov. 6:20; and ending (Pr. 7:5) as that did (Pr. 7:24), To keep thee from the strange woman; that is it he aims at; only there he had said, Keep thy father’s commandment, here (which comes all to one), Keep my commandments, for he speaks to us as unto sons. He speaks in God’s name; for it is God’s comm…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

Pr 7:1-27. The subject continued, by a delineation of the arts of strange women, as a caution to the unwary. 1-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).