Proverbs 9:1 “Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.”

Proverbs 9:1

Wisdom has built her house; she has carved out her seven pillars.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:

World English Bible

Wisdom has built her house. She has carved out her seven pillars.

American Standard Version

Wisdom hath builded her house; She hath hewn out her seven pillars:

Geneva Bible 1599

Wisedome hath built her house, and hewen out her seuen pillars.

Darby Translation

Wisdom hath built her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars;

Young's Literal Translation

Wisdom hath builded her house, She hath hewn out her pillars — seven.

Bible in Basic English

Wisdom has made her house, putting up her seven pillars.

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Cross references

“builded”

Matthew 16:18 1 Corinthians 3:9–15 Ephesians 2:20–22 Hebrews 3:3–6 1 Timothy 3:15 1 Peter 2:5

Matthew 16:18 · BSB

And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.

1 Corinthians 3:9–15 · BSB

For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.

Ephesians 2:20–22 · BSB

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

Hebrews 3:3–6 · BSB

For Jesus has been counted worthy of greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself.

1 Timothy 3:15 · BSB

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

1 Peter 2:5 · BSB

you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

“pillars”

Revelation 3:12 Galatians 2:9 1 Kings 7:21 1 Kings 7:6 1 Kings 7:2 1 Kings 7:3

Revelation 3:12 · BSB

The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the name of the city of My God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of…

Galatians 2:9 · BSB

And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

1 Kings 7:21 · BSB

Thus he set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. The pillar to the south he named Jachin, and the pillar to the north he named Boaz.

1 Kings 7:6 · BSB

Solomon made his colonnade fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, with a portico in front of it and a canopy with pillars in front of the portico.

1 Kings 7:2 · BSB

He built the House of the Forest of Lebanon a hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, with four rows of cedar pillars supporting the cedar beams.

1 Kings 7:3 · BSB

The house was roofed with cedar above the beams that rested on the pillars—forty-five beams, fifteen per row.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.

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