Proverbs 31:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

known. Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the result of that knowledge; viz. respect from all at the city gate, which includes high and low, rich and poor, peasants, labourers and judges.

Proverbs 31:23

23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.