KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 31:22–23
A connected passage, with study helps kept beside the verses they explain.
Proverbs 31:22
22She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
22She maketh herselfe couerings of tapestrie; her cloathing is silke and purple.
Proverbs 31:23
23Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
23Her husband is knowen in the gates, when he sitteth among the Elders of the land.
ENSURE CONTEXTUALIZATION
Add surrounding context
Extend this passage one adjacent verse at a time.
QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS VERSE?
Ask a Local Pastor
Find a nearby pastor committed to holding fast the faithful word, then use the public contact information to begin a real conversation. Nothing is sent or stored for you.
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 31:22
To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Woven or ornamental fabric used as a covering, especially for a bed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Garments or covering for the body; figuratively, that which covers or invests.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Silk fabric used for clothing, covering, or merchandise.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A reddish-blue colour; cloth or clothing of that colour, often associated with wealth or royalty.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 31:23
A married man in relation to his wife; also one who manages or cultivates carefully.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE
Cross References
Choose how far to extend the reference list.
From verse 22
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study15¶ And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study10I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
11I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
12And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
13Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver; and thy raiment was of fine linen, and silk, and broidered work; thou didst eat fine flour, and honey, and oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study13The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1NOW it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
From verse 23
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study1THEN went Boaz up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the kinsman of whom Boaz spake came by; unto whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. And he turned aside, and sat down.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study18¶ Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study19Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7When I went out to the gate through the city, when I prepared my seat in the street!
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study7Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
- Study this reference
Open the full verse study11And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The Lord make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:
CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION
Still have questions? Ask a Local Pastor.
See public contact information for nearby churches. You decide whether to call, email, or visit.