- Bible
- Proverbs
- Chapter 31
- Verse 21
She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
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Gill's Exposition
She is not afraid of the snow for her household,.... That her family should suffer through the rigour of a cold season, when it is frost and snow;
for all her household are clothed with scarlet: the…
Barnes' Notes
Scarlet - Probably some well-known articles of dress, at once conspicuous for their color, or, as some think, for their double texture and warmth.
This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the…
Cambridge Bible
scarlet It has been proposed to change the Heb. vowel-points and render, doublegarments, or garments of doubletexture and warmth, δισσὰς χλαίνας, LXX; duplicibus, Vulg. There is no reason, however, to…