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Proverbs 31:30

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, [But] a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: [but] a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Favor [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Deceitful is loveliness and vain is beauty, The woman that revereth Yahweh, she, shall be praised:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— The grace [is] false, and the beauty [is] vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Fauour is deceitfull, and beautie is vanitie: but a woman that feareth the Lorde, she shall be praysed.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Fauour [is] deceitfull, and beautie [is] vaine: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shalbe praised.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Comeliness is deceitful and beauty is vain; but a woman who reverences the LORD shall be praised.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth Yahweh, she shall be praised.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Favour 2580
{2580} Prime
חֵן
chen
{khane}
From H2603; graciousness, that is, subjectively (kindness, favor) or objectively (beauty).
[is] deceitful, 8267
{8267} Prime
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
{sheh'-ker}
From H8266; an untruth; by implication a sham (often adverbially).
and beauty 3308
{3308} Prime
יֳפִי
yophiy
{yof-ee'}
From H3302; beauty.
[is] vain: 1892
{1892} Prime
הֶבֶל
hebel
{heh'-bel}
From H1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb.
[but] a woman 802
{0802} Prime
אִשָּׁה
'ishshah
{ish-shaw'}
The first form is the feminine of H0376 or H0582; the second form is an irregular plural; a woman (used in the same wide sense as H0582).
[that] feareth 3373
{3373} Prime
יָרֵא
yare'
{yaw-ray'}
From H3372; fearing; morally reverent.
Yähwè יָהוֶה, 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
she x1931
(1931) Complement
הוּא
huw'
{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
shall be praised. 1984
{1984} Prime
הָלַל
halal
{haw-lal'}
A primitive root; to be clear (originally of sound, but usually of color); to shine; hence to make a show; to boast; and thus to be (clamorously) foolish; to rave; causatively to celebrate; also to stultify.
z8691
<8691> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 533
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 31:10-31.


Proverbs 31:30

_ _ Favour — or, “Grace” of personal manner.

_ _ beauty — of face, or form (compare Proverbs 11:22). True piety alone commands permanent respect and affection (1 Peter 3:3).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Proverbs 31:10-31.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 31:30

Favour — Comeliness, which commonly gives women favour with those who behold them. Deceitful — It gives a false representation of the person, being often a cover to a deformed soul; it does not give a man that satisfaction, which at first he promised to himself from it; and it is soon lost, not only by death, but by many diseases and contingencies.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

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Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Favour:

Proverbs 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.
Proverbs 11:22 [As] a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, [so is] a fair woman which is without discretion.
2 Samuel 14:25 But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
Esther 1:11-12 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she [was] fair to look on. ... But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by [his] chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Ezekiel 16:15 But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was.
James 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

a woman:

Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD [is] to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
Exodus 1:17-21 But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. ... And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
Psalms 147:11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy.
Luke 1:6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
Luke 1:46-50 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, ... And his mercy [is] on them that fear him from generation to generation.
1 Peter 3:4-5 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. ... For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

she:

Ecclesiastes 7:18 [It is] good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from this withdraw not thine hand: for he that feareth God shall come forth of them all.
Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man.
Romans 2:29 But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.
1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
1 Peter 1:7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
1 Peter 3:4 But [let it be] the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, [even the ornament] of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.
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Ex 1:17. 2S 14:25. Es 1:11. Ps 147:11. Pv 1:7; 6:25; 8:13; 11:22. Ec 7:18; 12:13. Ezk 16:15. Lk 1:6, 46. Ro 2:29. 1Co 4:5. Jm 1:11. 1P 1:7, 24; 3:4.

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