Proverbs 7:27
New International Version
Her house is a highway to the grave, leading down to the chambers of death.

New Living Translation
Her house is the road to the grave. Her bedroom is the den of death.

English Standard Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Berean Standard Bible
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

King James Bible
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

New King James Version
Her house is the way to hell, Descending to the chambers of death.

New American Standard Bible
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.

NASB 1995
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.

NASB 1977
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.

Legacy Standard Bible
The ways to Sheol are in her house, Descending to the chambers of death.

Amplified Bible
Her house is the way to Sheol, Descending to the chambers of death.

Christian Standard Bible
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

American Standard Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The paths of her house are the paths of Sheol, of those descending to the chambers of death.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Her house is the way of hell, leading down to the chambers of death.

Contemporary English Version
Her house is a one-way street leading straight down to the world of the dead.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.

English Revised Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Her home is the way to hell and leads to the darkest vaults of death.

Good News Translation
If you go to her house, you are on the way to the world of the dead. It is a shortcut to death.

International Standard Version
Her house leads to Sheol, descending to death's catacombs.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Her house is the way to the nether-world, Going down to the chambers of death.

Literal Standard Version
The ways of Sheol—her house, | Going down to inner chambers of death!

Majority Standard Bible
Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

New American Bible
Her house is a highway to Sheol, leading down into the chambers of death.

NET Bible
Her house is the way to the grave, going down to the chambers of death.

New Revised Standard Version
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

New Heart English Bible
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the chambers of death.

Webster's Bible Translation
Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

World English Bible
Her house is the way to Sheol, going down to the rooms of death.

Young's Literal Translation
The ways of Sheol -- her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
26For she has brought many down to death; her slain are many in number. 27Her house is the road to Sheol, descending to the chambers of death.

Cross References
1 Corinthians 6:9
Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,

1 Corinthians 6:10
nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God.

Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

Proverbs 2:18
For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks to the departed spirits.

Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol.

Proverbs 7:8
crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,

Proverbs 9:18
But they do not know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of Sheol.


Treasury of Scripture

Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

Proverbs 2:18,19
For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead…

Proverbs 5:5
Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

Proverbs 9:18
But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

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Proverbs 7
1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6. In an example of his own experience he shows
10. the cunning of a harlot
22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24. He detests such wickedness














Verse 27. - Her house is the way to hell (sheol). A warning fontal in Proverbs 2:18 and Proverbs 5:5. Viae inferi domus ejus. The plural דַּרְכֵי is well expressed by Hitzig: "Her house forms a multiplicity of ways to hell." Manifold are the ways of destruction to which adultery leads; but they all look to one awful end. Going down to the chambers of death. Once entangled in the toils of the temptress, the victim may pass through many stages, but he ends finally in the lowest depth - destruction of body and soul Spiritual writers see here an adumbration of the seductions of false doctrine, and the late to which it brings all who by it are led astray.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Her house
בֵּיתָ֑הּ (bê·ṯāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

is the road
דַּרְכֵ֣י (dar·ḵê)
Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action

to Sheol,
שְׁא֣וֹל (šə·’ō·wl)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 7585: Underworld (place to which people descend at death)

descending
יֹ֝רְד֗וֹת (yō·rə·ḏō·wṯ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's 3381: To come or go down, descend

to
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

the chambers
חַדְרֵי־ (ḥaḏ·rê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 2315: A chamber, room

of death.
מָֽוֶת׃ (mā·weṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4194: Death, the dead, their place, state, pestilence, ruin


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