Proverbs 5:10

“lest strangers be filled with your strength, and your toil go to the house of a foreigner;”

Proverbs 5:10 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Proverbs 5:10, word by word

strangersזָרִיםzarim

stranger

An outsider, not part of the group.

Where else “zarim” appears
be filledיִשְׂבְּעוּyisbu

be sated

To have plenty, be fed up.

Where else “yisbu” appears
with your strengthכֹּחֶkoche

strength

Ability to do something: bodily strength or power to command.

Where else “koche” appears
your toilעֲצָבֶיatsave

pain

Suffering, labor; a wounding word.

Where else “atsave” appears
go to the houseבֵיתvet

house

A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.

Where else “vet” appears
of a foreignerנָכְרִיnachri

foreign, stranger

Foreign, strange; a foreigner, someone outside the family.

Where else “nachri” appears

The context

9lest you give to others your splendor, and your years to the cruel one;

10 · This verse (above)

11and you groan at your end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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