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Proverbs 8:3

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8:3beside the gates opening into3 the city,

at the entrance of the doorways she cries out:4

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Footnotes

  1. 3 Heb “at the mouth of.”
  2. 4 The cry is a very loud ringing cry that could not be missed. The term רָנַן (ranan) means “to give a ringing cry.” It is often only a shrill sound that might come with a victory in battle, but its use in the psalms for praise shows that it also can have clear verbal content, as it does here. For wisdom to stand in the street and give such a ringing cry would mean that it could be heard by all. It was a proclamation.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

beside the gates in front of the town,

at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:

NIVNew International Version (2011)

beside the gate leading into the city,

at the entrance, she cries aloud:

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Beside the gates leading into the city,

at the main entrance, she cries out:

NLTNew Living Translation

By the gates at the entrance to the town,

on the road leading in, she cries aloud,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Beside gates, before towns,

at the entrance of doors, she cries out:

KJV 1900King James Version

She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city,

At the coming in at the doors.