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Do notאַלdesireתַּחְמֹדher beautyיָפְיָהּin your heart,בִּלְבָבֶךָand do notוְאַלlet her take youתִּקָּחֲךָwith her eyelids.בְּעַפְעַפֶּיהָ
Proverbs 6:25
Study it in the app“Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her take you with her eyelids.”
Can a man carry fire in his lap without his clothes burning?Purity
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 6:25, word by word
- desireתַּחְמֹדtachmod
covet
To desire something strongly, especially what belongs to another.
Where else “tachmod” appears- her beautyיָפְיָyafya
beauty
Beauty, loveliness.
Where else “yafya” appears- in your heartלְבָבֶlevave
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, desire and decide.
Where else “levave” appears- let her take youתִּקָּחֲtikaach
take
To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.
Where else “tikaach” appears- with her eyelidsעַפְעַפֶּיafape
eyelid
An eyelid; also an eyelash. In poetry, "the eyelids of the dawn" are the first rays of morning.
Where else “afape” appears
The context
24to keep you from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the tongue of the foreign woman.
25 · This verse (above)
26For on account of a prostitute one comes to a loaf of bread, but another man’s wife hunts the precious soul.