Proverbs 5:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

a strange woman. Two words are used for "strange" and "stranger": one, Hebrew. zur, an apostate Israelite woman gone over to the idolatrous impurities of heathen religion; the other nakar,. purely foreign woman of. similar character. The danger is religious rather than moral. Hence here it is zur. See note on Proverbs 2:16.

drop as an honeycomb. distil honey. The invitations of religious idolatry suit the tastes of the natural man.

Proverbs 5:3

3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her moutha is smoother than oil: