proverbs 9:17 stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— “Stolen water is sweet; And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Stolen waters are sweet, And bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Stolen waters are sweet, and the bread of secrecy is pleasant.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Stolen waters, will be sweet,—and a secret meal, will be pleasant;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— 'Stolen waters are sweet, And hidden bread is pleasant.'
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Stollen waters are sweete, and hid bread is pleasant.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Stollen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Stolen waters are sweet and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Take and enjoy secret bread, and the sweet water of theft.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Stolen waters are sweet, and bread [eaten] in secret is pleasant.

Stolen 1589

{1589} Prime
גָּנַב
ganab
{gaw-nab'}

A primitive root; to thieve (literally or figuratively); by implication to deceive.

<8803> Grammar

Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815)
Count - 1415

waters 4325

{4325} Prime
מַיִם
mayim
{mah'-yim}

Dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense); water; figuratively juice; by euphemism urine, semen.

are sweet, 4985

{4985} Prime
מָתַק
mathaq
{maw-thak'}

A primitive root; to suck, by implication to relish, or (intransitively) be sweet.

<8799> Grammar

Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885

and bread 3899

{3899} Prime
לֶחֶם
lechem
{lekh'-em}

From H3898; food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it).

[eaten] in secret 5643

{5643} Prime
סֵתֶר
cether
{say'-ther}

From H5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense).

is pleasant. 5276

{5276} Prime
נָעֵם
na`em
{naw-ame'}

A primitive root; to be agreeable (literally or figuratively).

<8799> Grammar

Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885

_ _ The language of a proverb, meaning that forbidden delights are sweet and pleasant, as fruits of risk and danger.

Sweet — From the difficulty of obtaining them; and because the very prohibition renders them more grateful to corrupt nature.

Stolen:
Proverbs 20:17 Bread of deceit [is] sweet to a man; but afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Proverbs 23:31-32 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, [when] it moveth itself aright. ... At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Romans 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
James 1:14-15 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. ... Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

eaten in secret:
Heb. of secrecies,
Proverbs 7:18-20 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. ... He hath taken a bag of money with him, [and] will come home at the day appointed.
Proverbs 30:20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.
2 Kings 5:24-27 And when he came to the tower, he took [them] from their hand, and bestowed [them] in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed. ... The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper [as white] as snow.
Ephesians 5:12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.