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King James Version (1611 Edition)

Proverbs 1:21

Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gates;   Instruction;   Salvation;   Wisdom;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Gates;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Despisement;   Evil;   Fear;   Finding;   Hate;   Hearing;   Knowledge;   Reproof;   Safety;   Seeking;   Wisdom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Call of God, the;   Gates;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wisdom;   Wisdom literature;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Concourse;   Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Concourse;   Crier;   Cry, Crying;   Gate;   Open Place;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom;   Wisdom of God;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alexandrian Philosophy;   Gate;   Synagogue;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She cries out above the commotion;she speaks at the entrance of the city gates:
Hebrew Names Version
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
King James Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
English Standard Version
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
New Century Version
She cries out in the noisy street and shouts at the city gates:
New English Translation
at the head of the noisy streets she calls, in the entrances of the gates in the city she utters her words:
Amplified Bible
She calls out at the head of the noisy streets [where large crowds gather]; At the entrance of the city gates she speaks her words:
New American Standard Bible
At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she declares her sayings:
World English Bible
She calls at the head of noisy places. At the entrance of the city gates, she utters her words:
Geneva Bible (1587)
She calleth in the hye streete, among the prease in the entrings of the gates, and vttereth her wordes in the citie, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
At the head of the noisy streets she calls out;At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:
Berean Standard Bible
in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
Contemporary English Version
She shouts in the marketplaces and near the city gates as she says to the people,
Complete Jewish Bible
she calls out at streetcorners and speaks out at entrances to city gates:
Darby Translation
she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
Easy-to-Read Version
She is calling out where the noisy crowd gathers:
George Lamsa Translation
She preaches in the chief places of the concourse; in the openings of the gates of the city, she utters her words, saying,
Good News Translation
calling loudly at the city gates and wherever people come together:
Lexham English Bible
On a busy corner she cries out, at the entrances of the gates in the city, she speaks her sayings:
Literal Translation
she calls at the head of places of commotion; in the opening of the gates, in the city she utters her words:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She calleth before ye congregacion in ye open gates, and sheweth hir wordes thorow ye cite, sayenge:
American Standard Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she uttereth her words:
Bible in Basic English
Her words are sounding in the meeting-places, and in the doorways of the town:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She calleth at the head of the noisy streets, at the entrances of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She calleth before the congregation in the open gates, and sheweth her wordes through the citie, saying:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
English Revised Version
She crieth in the chief place of concourse; at the entering in of the gates, in the city, she uttereth her words:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
It crieth ofte in the heed of cumpenyes; in the leeues of yatis of the citee it bringith forth hise wordis,
Update Bible Version
She cries in the most noisy places; At the entrance of the gates, In the city, she utters her words:
Webster's Bible Translation
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, [saying],
New King James Version
She cries out in the chief concourses, [fn] At the openings of the gates in the cityShe speaks her words:
New Living Translation
She calls to the crowds along the main street, to those gathered in front of the city gate:
New Life Bible
There she cries out in the noisy streets. At the open gates of the city she speaks:
New Revised Standard
At the busiest corner she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
At the head of bustling streets, she crieth aloud, - at the openings of the gates in the city - her sayings, she doth utter: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
At the head of multitudes she crieth out, in the entrance of the gates of the city she uttereth her words, saying:
Revised Standard Version
on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
Young's Literal Translation
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
New American Standard Bible (1995)
At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:

Contextual Overview

20 Wisedome crieth without, she vttereth her voice in the streets: 21 Shee crieth in the chiefe place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she vttereth her words, saying, 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye loue simplicitie? And the scorners delight in their scorning, and fooles hate knowledge? 23 Turne you at my reproofe: behold, I will powre out my spirit vnto you, I will make knowen my wordes vnto you. 24 Because I haue called, and yee refused, I haue stretched out my hand, and no man regarded: 25 But ye haue set at nought all my counsell, & would none of my reproofe: 26 I also will laugh at your calamitie, I wil mocke when your feare commeth. 27 When your feare commeth as desolation, and your destruction commeth as a whirlewinde; when distresse and anguish commeth vpon you: 28 Then shall they call vpon mee, but I will not answere; they shall seeke me early, but they shall not finde me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the feare of the Lord.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Proverbs 9:3, Matthew 10:27, Matthew 13:2, John 18:20, Acts 5:20

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:12 - vessel Proverbs 8:1 - General Proverbs 8:33 - refuse Proverbs 8:34 - watching Song of Solomon 3:2 - the streets Isaiah 45:19 - spoken Isaiah 55:1 - Ho Jeremiah 7:2 - Stand

Cross-References

Genesis 1:18
And to rule ouer the day, and ouer the night, and to diuide the light from the darkenesse: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the liuing creature after his kinde, cattell, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kinde: and it was so.
Genesis 1:25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kinde, and cattell after their kinde, and euery thing that creepeth vpon the earth, after his kinde: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let vs make man in our Image, after our likenesse: and let them haue dominion ouer the fish of the sea, and ouer the foule of the aire, and ouer the cattell, and ouer all the earth, and ouer euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth.
Genesis 1:31
And God saw euery thing that hee had made: and behold, it was very good. And the euening and the morning were the sixth day.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowles after their kinde, and of cattel after their kinde: of euery creeping thing of the earth after his kinde, two of euery sort shall come vnto thee, to keepe them aliue.
Genesis 7:14
They, and euery beast after his kinde, & all the cattell after their kinde: and euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth after his kinde, and euery foule after his kinde, euery birde of euery sort.
Genesis 8:17
Bring foorth with thee euery liuing thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowle, and of cattell, and of euery creeping thing that creepeth vpon the earth, that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitfull, and multiply vpon the earth.
Genesis 8:19
Euery beast, euery creeping thing, and euery fowle, and whatsoeuer creepeth vpon the earth, after their kinds, went foorth out of the Arke.
Genesis 9:7
And you, be ye fruitfull, and multiply, bring foorth aboundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She crieth in the chief place of concourse,.... Where a multitude of people meet together; the Targum is,

"on the top of palaces;''

but rather it is to be understood of the synagogues of the Jews, where Christ frequently preached; and which, from hence, they build in the highest part of the city c; and best of all the temple, whither the tribes of Israel went up to worship in great bodies, and to which the Jews daily resorted; here Christ taught publicly, as he himself says,

John 18:20;

in the opening of the gates; either of the city, at which people went in and out in great numbers; or of the temple, where they passed and repassed continually on account of worship; see John 10:23; in allusion hereunto the public worship of God's house is signified by the gates of Zion, and also of Wisdom, Psalms 87:2;

in the city she uttereth her words; the doctrines of the Gospel; even in the city of Jerusalem literally, and in other cities of Judea and Galilee, the singular being put for the plural; and figuratively in the church of God, often compared to a city; and so all these expressions of "without", in the "streets", in the "chief place of concourse", "the opening of the gates", and "the city", may denote in general the openness and publicness of the Gospel ministry, both by Christ in his apostles, in Judea, and in the Gentile world; more especially the former;

[saying], as follows.

c Maimon. Hilchot Tephillah, c. 11. s. 2.


 
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