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New Living Translation

Proverbs 31:17

She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Economics;   Industry;   Poetry;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Woman;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Praise;   Speech/communication;   Virtue;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Commerce;   Girdles;   Industry;   Wives;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

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

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Loins;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Acrostics;   Monogamy;   Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
She girds herself with strengthAnd makes her arms strong.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She girds herself with strength And makes her arms strong.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes.
Darby Translation
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
New King James Version
She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms.
Literal Translation
She has girded her loins with strength, and has made her arms strong.
Easy-to-Read Version
She works very hard. She is strong and able to do all her work.
World English Bible
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
King James Version (1611)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.
King James Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes.
Amplified Bible
She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] And makes her arms strong.
American Standard Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.
Bible in Basic English
She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.
Update Bible Version
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
Webster's Bible Translation
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
New English Translation
She begins her work vigorously, and she strengthens her arms.
Contemporary English Version
and she always works hard.
Complete Jewish Bible
ח She gathers her strength around her and throws herself into her work.
Geneva Bible (1587)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.
George Lamsa Translation
She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.
Hebrew Names Version
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
New Life Bible
She makes herself ready with strength, and makes her arms strong.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.
English Revised Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.
Berean Standard Bible
She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.
New Revised Standard
She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
She girdeth, with strength her loins, and putteth vigour into her arms:
Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.
Lexham English Bible
She girds her waist in strength, and makes her arms strong.
English Standard Version
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.
New American Standard Bible
She surrounds her waist with strength And makes her arms strong.
New Century Version
She does her work with energy, and her arms are strong.
Good News Translation
She is a hard worker, strong and industrious.
Christian Standard Bible®
She draws on her strength and reveals that her arms are strong.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sche girde hir leendis with strengthe, and made strong hir arm.
Revised Standard Version
She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.
Young's Literal Translation
She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

Contextual Overview

10 Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies. 11 Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life. 12 She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life. 13 She finds wool and flax and busily spins it. 14 She is like a merchant's ship, bringing her food from afar. 15 She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day's work for her servant girls. 16 She goes to inspect a field and buys it; with her earnings she plants a vineyard. 17 She is energetic and strong, a hard worker. 18 She makes sure her dealings are profitable; her lamp burns late into the night. 19 Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

girdeth: 1 Kings 18:46, 2 Kings 4:29, Job 38:3, Luke 12:35, Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:13

strengtheneth: Genesis 49:24, Isaiah 44:12, Hosea 7:15

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
Then he loaded ten of Abraham's camels with all kinds of expensive gifts from his master, and he traveled to distant Aram-naharaim. There he went to the town where Abraham's brother Nahor had settled.
Genesis 24:61
Then Rebekah and her servant girls mounted the camels and followed the man. So Abraham's servant took Rebekah and went on his way.
1 Samuel 30:17
David and his men rushed in among them and slaughtered them throughout that night and the entire next day until evening. None of the Amalekites escaped except 400 young men who fled on camels.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She girdeth her loins with strength,.... Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; see Luke 17:8; the strength of creatures being in their loins, Job 40:16; the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautus r; and the sense is much the same with what follows;

and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself, Genesis 49:24; here she plays the man, and acts the manly part, 1 Corinthians 16:13.

r "Lumbos defractos velim", Stichus, Act. 2. Sc. 1. v. 37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:17. She girdeth her loins with strength

7. She takes care of her own health and strength, not only by means of useful labour, but by healthy exercise. She avoids what might enervate her body, or soften her mind-she is ever active, and girt ready for every necessary exercise. Her loins are firm, and her arms strong.


 
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