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Proverbs 31:17

She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

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.
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 Living Translation
She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.
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 A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he shall have no lack of gain. 12 She does him good and not evil All the days of her life. 13 She seeks wool and flax, And works willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchant-ships; She brings her bread from far. 15 She rises also while it is yet night, And gives food to her household, And their task to her maidens. 16 She considers a field, and buys it; With the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong. 18 She perceives that her merchandise is profitable: Her lamp does not go out by night. 19 She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.

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
And the slave took ten camels, of the camels of his master, having all good things of his master's in his hand. And he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, to the city of Nahor.
Genesis 24:61
And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode on the camels, and followed the man. And the slave took Rebekah, and went his way.
1 Samuel 30:17
And David smote them from the twilight even to the evening of the next day: and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men, who rode on camels and fled.

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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