Parallel Verses

American Standard Version

With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along.

New American Standard Bible

With her many persuasions she entices him;
With her flattering lips she seduces him.

King James Version

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Holman Bible

She seduces him with her persistent pleading;
she lures with her flattering talk.

International Standard Version

She leads him astray with great persuasion; with flattering lips she seduces him.

A Conservative Version

With her much fair speech she causes him to yield. With the flattering of her lips she forces him along.

Amplified


With her many persuasions she caused him to yield;
With her flattering lips she seduced him.

Bible in Basic English

With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.

Darby Translation

With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

Julia Smith Translation

With much of her talking she caused him to turn aside; with the smoothness of her lips she will thrust him away.

King James 2000

With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she seduced him.

Lexham Expanded Bible

She persuades him with the greatness of her teachings; with her smooth lips she compels him.

Modern King James verseion

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thus with many sweet words she overcame him, and with her flattering lips she enticed him

NET Bible

She persuaded him with persuasive words; with her smooth talk she compelled him.

New Heart English Bible

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

The Emphasized Bible

She turneth him aside, with her great persuasiveness, - with the flattery of her lips, she compelleth him:

Webster

With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she impelled him.

World English Bible

With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

Youngs Literal Translation

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
לקח 
Leqach 
Usage: 9

with the flattering
חלק 
Cheleq 
Usage: 67

of her lips
שׂפת שׂפה 
Saphah 
Usage: 176

נדח 
Nadach 
Usage: 53

References

Fausets

Context Readings

A Story Of Seduction

20 He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon. 21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield; With the flattering of her lips she forceth him along. 22 He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or as one in fetters to the correction of the fool;



Cross References

Proverbs 5:3

For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil:

Psalm 12:2

They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.

Judges 16:15-17

And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thy heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

1 Samuel 28:23

But he refused, and said, I will not eat. But his servants, together with the woman, constrained him; and he hearkened unto their voice. So he arose from the earth, and sat upon the bed.

2 Kings 4:8

And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

Proverbs 6:24

To keep thee from the evil woman, From the flattery of the foreigner's tongue.

Proverbs 7:5

That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

Luke 14:23

And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and constrain them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 24:29

And they constrained him, saying, Abide with us; for it is toward evening, and the day is now far spent. And he went in to abide with them.

Acts 16:15

And when she was baptized, and her household, she besought us, saying, If ye have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and abide there . And she constrained us.

2 Corinthians 5:14

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that one died for all, therefore all died;

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