Proverbs 7:21

NETBible

She persuaded him 1  with persuasive words; 2  with her smooth talk 3  she compelled him. 4 

NIV ©

With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.

NASB ©

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

NLT ©

So she seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him.

MSG ©

Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech.

BBE ©

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

NRSV ©

With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.

NKJV ©

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

KJV
With her much
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fair speech
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she caused him to yield
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with the flattering
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of her lips
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she forced
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NASB ©
With her many
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persuasions
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she entices
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him; With her flattering
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lips
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she seduces
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him.
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V-AAI-3S
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PRT
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D-ASM
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A-DSF
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N-DSF
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N-DPM
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PRT
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T-DPM
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PREP
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NET [draft] ITL
She persuaded
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him with persuasive
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words; with her smooth
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talk
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she compelled
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him.
HEBREW
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NETBible

She persuaded him 1  with persuasive words; 2  with her smooth talk 3  she compelled him. 4 

NET Notes

1 tn Heb “she turned him aside.” This expression means that she persuaded him. This section now begins the description of the capitulation, for the flattering speech is finished.

2 sn The term לֶקַח (leqakh) was used earlier in Proverbs for wise instruction; now it is used ironically for enticement to sin (see D. W. Thomas, “Textual and Philological Notes on Some Passages in the Book of Proverbs,” VTSup 3 [1955]: 280-92).

3 tn Heb “smooth of her lips”; cf. NAB “smooth lips”; NASB “flattering lips.” The term “lips” is a metonymy of cause representing what she says.

4 tn The verb means “to impel; to thrust; to banish,” but in this stem in this context “to compel; to force” into some action. The imperfect tense has the nuance of progressive imperfect to parallel the characteristic perfect of the first colon.