She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
Parallel translations
- WEB She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- BSB She makes coverings for her bed; her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- NKJV She makes tapestry for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- NASB She makes coverings for herself; Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
- NLT She makes her own bedspreads. She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.
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Quick answer
She makes fine coverings for herself and dresses in quality linen and purple.
Overview
The worthy woman's industry produces both beauty and provision, including dignified clothing of fine materials. Her skill yields excellence, not mere bare necessity. The verse affirms that wise diligence can bring honorable provision and dignity, all received gratefully as gifts within a life ordered by godly priorities.
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- Rev 19:8And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
- Gen 41:42And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
- Prov 7:16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
- Ps 45:13–14The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
- Ezek 16:10–13I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.
- Judg 8:26And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Esth 8:15And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.
- 1 Pet 3:3Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
- Rev 19:14And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
- Esth 5:1Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, over against the king’s house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
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