Proverbs 7:26

many strong This is the rendering of a single Heb. word, which may mean mighty, as it usually does, or (comp. the use of the verb in Psalms 40:5; Psalms 40:12 [Hebrews 6:13]) many. Lit. mighty ones, or numerous ones, are all her slain, i.e. the whole number of those slain by her amount to a mighty host, as it is happily rendered in R.V. The thought is not so much of the individual strength of her victims as of their great number, as the parallelism indicates: ἀναρίθμητοί εἰσιν οὒς πεφόνευκε, "numberless are they whom she has slain," LXX.