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Drinkשְׁתֵהwaterמַיִםfrom your own cistern,מִבּוֹרֶךָandוְflowing waterנֹזְלִיםfrom the midstמִתּוֹךְof your own well.בְּאֵרֶךָ
Proverbs 5:15
Study it in the app“Drink water from your own cistern, and flowing water from the midst of your own well.”
The son is told: rejoice in the wife of your youthDating and Marriage
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 5:15, word by word
- Drinkשְׁתֵהshete
drink
Drink.
Where else “shete” appears- waterמַיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- from your own cisternבּוֹרֶbore
cistern
A hole dug to hold water.
Where else “bore” appears- flowing waterנֹזְלִיםnozlim
stream
Streams of water that run over the land.
Where else “nozlim” appears- from the midstתּוֹךְtoch
midst
The central point of something, or the company of several: in the midst of them.
Where else “toch” appears- of your own wellבְּאֵרֶbeere
well
A deep hole dug in the ground to draw water.
Where else “beere” appears
Translation note
It can be understood as an image of faithful love within marriage: the wife is one’s own source of water (vv. 15-18; v. 18 names “the wife of your youth”).
The context
14I almost came to be in every evil in the midst of the assembly and the community.”
15 · This verse (above)
16Should your springs be scattered outside, streams of water in the squares?