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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 31:22

She does her own sewing, and everything she wears is beautiful.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Carpet;   Economics;   Industry;   Poetry;   Silk;   Tapestry;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Purple;   Tapestry;   Woman;   The Topic Concordance - Praise;   Speech/communication;   Virtue;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Garments;   Industry;   Wives;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Garments;   Lemuel;   Letters;   Linen;   Proverb, the Book of;   Purple;   Silk;   Woman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Work;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Color, Symbolic Meaning of;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Linen;   Poetry;   Silk;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Education;   Lemuel;   Linen;   Marriage;   Purple;   Silk;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acrostic;   Cloth, Clothing;   Proverbs, Book of;   Silk;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Dress;   Ethics;   Marriage;   Massa;   Song of Songs;   Spinning and Weaving;   Trade and Commerce;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Home (2);   Linen ;   Parents (2);   Sirach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Silk;   Tapestry;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Garments;   Marriage;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Dress;   Marriage;   Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Color;   Cushion;   Dress;   Fine;   Linen;   Purple;   Silk;   Tapestry;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Acrostics;   Monogamy;   Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She makes her own bed coverings;her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Hebrew Names Version
She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
King James Version
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
English Standard Version
She makes bed coverings for herself; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
New American Standard Bible
She makes coverings for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
New Century Version
She makes coverings for herself; her clothes are made of linen and other expensive material.
Amplified Bible
She makes for herself coverlets, cushions, and rugs of tapestry. Her clothing is linen, pure and fine, and purple [wool].
World English Bible
She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Geneva Bible (1587)
She maketh her selfe carpets: fine linen and purple is her garment.
Legacy Standard Bible
She makes coverings for herself;Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Berean Standard Bible
She makes coverings for her bed; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Complete Jewish Bible
מ She makes her own quilts; she is clothed in fine linen and purple.
Darby Translation
She maketh herself coverlets; her clothing is byssus and purple.
Easy-to-Read Version
She makes sheets and spreads for the beds, and she wears clothes of fine linen.
George Lamsa Translation
She makes herself a covering of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Good News Translation
She makes bedspreads and wears clothes of fine purple linen.
Lexham English Bible
She makes for herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Literal Translation
She makes herself ornamental coverings; her clothing is bleached linen and purple.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She maketh hir self fayre ornametes, hir clothige is whyte sylke & purple.
American Standard Version
She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Bible in Basic English
She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She maketh for herself coverlets; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
King James Version (1611)
She maketh herselfe couerings of tapestrie; her cloathing is silke and purple.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She maketh her selfe faire ornametes, her clothyng is white silke and purple.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
She makes for her husband clothes of double texture, and garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet.
English Revised Version
She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sche made to hir a ray cloth; bijs and purpur is the cloth of hir.
Update Bible Version
She makes for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Webster's Bible Translation
She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing [is] silk and purple.
New English Translation
She makes for herself coverlets; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
New King James Version
She makes tapestry for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
New Living Translation
She makes her own bedspreads. She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.
New Life Bible
She makes coverings for herself. Her clothes are linen cloth and purple.
New Revised Standard
She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Coverlets, she maketh for herself, Of white linen and of purple, is her clothing:
Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple, is her covering.
Revised Standard Version
She makes herself coverings; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Young's Literal Translation
Ornamental coverings she hath made for herself, Silk and purple [are] her clothing.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She makes coverings for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

Contextual Overview

10 A truly good wife is the most precious treasure a man can find! 11 Her husband depends on her, and she never lets him down. 12 She is good to him every day of her life, 13 and with her own hands she gladly makes clothes. 14 She is like a sailing ship that brings food from across the sea. 15 She gets up before daylight to prepare food for her family and for her servants. 16 She knows how to buy land and how to plant a vineyard, 17 and she always works hard. 18 She knows when to buy or sell, and she stays busy until late at night. 19 She spins her own cloth,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

coverings: Proverbs 7:16

clothing: Genesis 41:42, *marg. Esther 5:1, Esther 8:15, Psalms 45:13, Psalms 45:14, Ezekiel 16:10-13, 1 Peter 3:3

silk: Shesh, rather fine linen, or cotton. (See note on Exodus 39:27.) Sadin, rendered "fine linen," Proverbs 31:24, is probably the same as the Arabic sidn, and sudl, a veil, or an inner covering of fine muslin.

Reciprocal: 1 Timothy 2:9 - not

Cross-References

Genesis 30:36
Then Laban made Jacob keep the rest of the sheep and goats at a distance of three days' journey.
Genesis 31:5
and he told them: Your father isn't as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God my ancestors worshiped has been on my side.
Genesis 31:12
and he said, "Notice that all the rams are either spotted or speckled. I know everything Laban is doing to you,
Genesis 31:13
and I am the God you worshiped at Bethel, when you poured olive oil on a rock and made a promise to me. Leave here right away and return to the land where you were born."
Genesis 31:31
Jacob answered, "I left secretly because I was afraid you would take your daughters from me by force.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She maketh herself coverings of tapestry,.... For the furniture and ornament of her house, or for her bed; which may signify the ordinances of the Gospel, and the decent, orderly, and beautiful administration of them, wherein the church has communion with her Lord; see Song of Solomon 1:16. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "garments of divers colours", such as was Joseph's coat, Genesis 37:3; and, in a spiritual sense, may be applied to the above mentioned garments, and agrees with what goes before and follows;

her clothing [is] silk and purple; the Tyrian purple, which, Strabo says x, is the best; or purple silk, silk of a purple colour: or rather fine linen of this colour; a dress suitable to a queen, as the church is, who is represented as clothed with clothing of wrought gold, with raiment of needlework, Psalms 45:9; see Ezekiel 16:10. This is not her own natural clothing, for she has none by nature that deserves the name; nor of her own working, not works of righteousness done by her; nor of her own putting on, but what Christ has wrought out for her, and clothes her with; and which is very rich in itself, the best robe, very ornamental to her; her wedding garment, and which will last for ever; see Isaiah 61:10.

x Geograph. l. 16. p. 521.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Silk - Better, fine linen, the byssus of Egypt.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:22. She maketh herself coverings of tapestry

13. She is not regardless either of her own person, or of the decent, proper appearance of her presses and wardrobe. She has coverings or carpeting for her guests to sit upon; she has also tapestry, מרבדים marbaddim, either tapestry, carpeting, or quilted work for her beds; and her own clothing is שש shesh, flne flax, or linen cloth, and purple; probably for a cloak or mantle. The fine linen or cotton cloth of Egypt is probably intended. I have often seen it wrapping the bodies of mummies; it is something like our coarse calico. The purple was supposed to have been dyed by a precious liquor obtained from the pinna magna, a large shellfish, of the muscle kind, found on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. I have seen some of them nearly two feet in length. But it is a doubt whether any such liquor was ever obtained from this or any other fish; and the story itself is invented merely to hide the secret, the proper method of dying purple; which was kept so well that it certainly died with the ancients.


 
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