Proverbs 6:26

For by means of an isha zonah a man is reduced to a kikar lechem; 1 and [another] manʼs wife will prey on the nefesh yekara (precious soul). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

In Context

25Lust not after her beauty in thine lev; 1 neither let her allure thee with her eyelids. 1

27Can a man take eish in his kheyk, 1 and his clothes not be burned? 1

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Cross References

Genesis 39:7And it came to pass after these things, that eshet adonav cast her eyes upon Yosef; and she said, Lie with me.

1 Samuel 2:36And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine Bais shall come and bow before him + 2:36 i.e., the Kohen Ne'eman to get an agorat kesef (a silver coin) and a kikar lechem (loaf of bread), and shall say, Put me please into one of the Kehunnot (Divisions of the Kehunah), that I may get a piece of lechem to eat.

Proverbs 7:23Till a khetz (arrow) strike through his liver; 1 as a tzippor hasteth to the pach (snare), 1 and knoweth not that it is for his nefesh (life). 1

Proverbs 29:8Scornful men enflame a city, 1 but chachamim turn away af (wrath). 1

Ezekiel 13:18And say, Thus saith Adonoi Hashem: Hoy (woe, doom) to the seamstresses of magic charms on wrists, who make mispachot (amulets) for the rosh of every size to hunt nefashot! Will ye hunt the nefashot of My people, and yet save your own nefashot alive?

Luke 15:30But when shows up this ben of yours, the one having devoured your property with zonot (prostitutes), you sacrificed for him the fattened calf. + 15:30 Prov 29:3

Matthew Henry on Proverbs 6:21-35

Parental Cautions; Cautions against Impurity. 20 My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck. 22 When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. 23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life: 24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange… Read the whole commentary →

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