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Proverbs 7:21

NETBible	She persuaded him¹ with persuasive words;² with her smooth talk³ she compelled him.⁴
NIV © biblegateway Pro 7:21	With persuasive words she led him astray; she seduced him with her smooth talk.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 7:21	With her many persuasions she entices him; With her flattering lips she seduces him.
NLT © biblegateway Pro 7:21	So she seduced him with her pretty speech. With her flattery she enticed him.
MSG © biblegateway Pro 7:21	Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech.
BBE © SABDAweb Pro 7:21	With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
NRSV © bibleoremus Pro 7:21	With much seductive speech she persuades him; with her smooth talk she compels him.
NKJV © biblegateway Pro 7:21	With her enticing speech she caused him to yield, With her flattering lips she seduced him.
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KJV	With her much <07230> fair speech <03948> she caused him to yield <05186> (8689)_, with the flattering <02506> of her lips <08193> she forced <05080> (8686) him.
NASB © biblegateway Pro 7:21	With her many <07230> persuasions <03948> she entices <05186> him; With her flattering <02507> lips <08193> she seduces <05080> him.
LXXM	apeplanhsen <635> V-AAI-3S de <1161> PRT auton <846> D-ASM pollh <4183> A-DSF omilia <3657> N-DSF brocoiv <1029> N-DPM te <5037> PRT toiv <3588> T-DPM apo <575> PREP ceilewn <5491> N-GPN exwkeilen {V-AAI-3S} auton <846> D-ASM
NET [draft] ITL	She persuaded <05186> him with persuasive <03948> words; with her smooth <02506> talk <08193> she compelled <05080> him.
HEBREW	wnxydt <05080> hytpv <08193> qlxb <02506> hxql <03948> brb <07230> wtjh (7:21) <05186>

NETBible

She persuaded him¹ with persuasive words;² with her smooth talk³ she compelled him.⁴

NET Notes

¹tn 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.

²sn 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).

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

⁴tn 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.