King James Version
Proverbs 9:2 in the King James Version says “She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. her beasts: Heb. her killing” — study this verse from Proverbs chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. her beasts: Heb. her killing”
Proverbs 9:2 · KJV
Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table. her beasts: Heb. her killing
She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest places of the city,
Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
KJV Study — Public Domain
“her beasts”
H2874properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter)
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
“she hath also furnished”
H6186to set in a row, i.e., arrange, put in order (in a very wide variety of applications)
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