Proverbs 27:15

Footnotes

1. 33 Heb “a wife of contentions” (an attributive genitive). Cf. , “a quarrelsome wife”; “a nagging wife.”
2. 34 The form נִשְׁתָּוָה (nishtavah) is classified by as a Nitpael perfect from the root שָׁוָה (shavah, “to be like; to resemble”; 1001 I שָׁוָה). The form also has metathesis before the sibilant. The interprets it as “Drops drive a man out of his house on a wintry day; so a railing woman also drives him out of his own house.”