Proverbs 30:23
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By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.

an odious

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

Proverbs 27:15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

an handmaid

Proverbs 29:21 He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Context
The Words of Agur
22By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat: 23By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.24There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.…
Cross References
Proverbs 30:22
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Proverbs 30:24
There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.

Lexicon
an unloved woman
שְׂ֭נוּאָה (nū·’āh)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8130: To hate

who
כִּ֣י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

marries,
תִבָּעֵ֑ל (ṯib·bā·‘êl)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1166: To be master, to marry

and a maidservant
וְ֝שִׁפְחָ֗ה (wə·šip̄·ḥāh)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8198: Maid, maidservant

who
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

supplants
תִירַ֥שׁ (ṯî·raš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3423: To occupy, to seize, to rob, to inherit, to expel, to impoverish, to ruin

her mistress.
גְּבִרְתָּֽהּ׃ (gə·ḇir·tāh)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1404: Lady, queen, mistress


Additional Translations
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

or if a maid-servant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.

under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.

For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
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