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Proverbs 31:19
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She stretches out her hands to the distaff,And her hands hold fast the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands grasp the spindle.
She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe.
She putteth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hand holds the spindle.
She has sent forth her hands on the distaff, and her hands have held the spindle.
She makes her own thread and weaves her own cloth.
She layeth her handes to the spindle, and her handes hold the distaffe.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
She layeth hir fyngers to the spyndle, & hir hande taketh holde of ye rocke.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle [as she spins wool into thread for clothing].
She layeth her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.
She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
Her hands take hold of the distaff, and her hands grasp the spindle.
She spins her own cloth,
י She puts her hands to the staff with the flax; her fingers hold the spinning rod.
She putteth her handes to the wherue, and her handes handle the spindle.
She stretches out her arms diligently, and puts her hands to the spindle.
She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber.
She puts her hands to the wheel to make cloth.
She reaches forth her arms to needful works, and applies her hands to the spindle.
She layeth her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Her hands, she putteth forth to the distaff, and, her palms, lay hold of the spindle:
She hath put out her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.
Her hands she puts onto the distaff, and her palms hold a spindle.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands grasp the spindle.
She makes thread with her hands and weaves her own cloth.
She spins her own thread and weaves her own cloth.
She extends her hands to the spinning staff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Sche putte hir hondis to stronge thingis, and hir fyngris token the spyndil.
She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.
Her hands she hath sent forth on a spindle, And her hands have held a distaff.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
She takes the spindle in her right hand, by twisting which she twists the thread; while she holds the distaff, on which the wool or flax is rolled, in the guard of the left arm, and draws down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:26
Reciprocal: Proverbs 31:24 - General
Cross-References
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
Now, you want to be gone, because you sore longed after your father's house, but why have you stolen my gods?"
With whoever you find your gods, he shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it." For Jacob didn't know that Rachel had stolen them.
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel's saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt about all the tent, but didn't find them.
Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
So they set them up Micah's engraved image which he made, all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She layeth her hands to the spindle,.... As Penelope and her maidens did t. Or spinning wheel, more properly, the wheel itself, which is laid hold on by the right hand, and turned round;
and her hands hold the distaff; the rock, stick, or staff, about which the wool is wrapped, which is spun, and is held in the left hand; for though hands are mentioned in both clauses, yet it is only with one hand the wheel is turned, and the distaff held with the other. Not only wool and flax were sought by her, Proverbs 31:13; but she spins them, and works them up into garments her web is not like the spider's, spun out of its own bowels, on which it hangs; to which the hope and trust of a hypocrite are compared, and whose webs do not become garments to cover them, Job 8:14; but the church's web is both for ornament, to the adorning of her profession, and for defence and protection from the calumnies of the world; for by these are meant good works, as Ambrose interprets them.
t Homer, Odyss. 1. v. 357. & 21. v. 351.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:19. She layeth her hands to the spindle —
10. She gives an example of skill and industry to her household. She takes the distaff, that on which the wool or flax was rolled; and the spindle, that by twisting of which she twisted the thread with the right hand, while she held the distaff in the guard of the left arm, and drew down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Allowing that spindle and distaff are proper translations of כישור kishor, and פלך pelech, this was their use, and the way in which they were used. The spindle and distaff are the most ancient of all the instruments used for spinning, or making thread. The spinning-wheel superseded them in these countries; but still they were in considerable use till spinning machinery superseded both them and the spinning-wheels in general.
