12 Kinds of Woman in Proverbs

• 1.  “A fair woman” – Prov. 11:22
  • fair woman posses discretion.
    • Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding one’s own conduct.
• 2.  “A gracious woman” – Prov. 11:16 – retaineth honor
  • gracious -Favorable; kind; benevolent; merciful; disposed to forgive offenses and impart unmerited blessings. 
• • honor – respect, regarded with esteem, reputation, good name.
• 3.  “a whorish woman’ – Prov. 6:26
• whorish – Lewd; unchaste; addicted to unlawful sexual pleasures; incontinent.
• 4.  “an odious woman” – Prov. 30:21-23
  • odious – 1. Hateful; deserving hatred. It expresses something less than detestable and abominable; as an odious name; odious vice. All wickedness is odious.

2. Offensive to the senses; disgusting; as an odious sight; an odious smell.

3. Causing hate; invidious; as, to utter odious truth.

4. Exposed to hatred.

He rendered himself odious to the parliament.

• 5.  “an adulterous woman” – Prov. 30:20
  • Acts if has done nothing wrong.
• 6.  “a brawling woman” – Prov. 21:9
  • brawling – The act of quarreling.
• 7.  “strange woman” – Prov. 2:16-19
  • characteristics – flatters with her words; forsakes what learn as child and God’s words; connected with death and hell.
    • strange – meaning not just a woman of another race or someone not acquainted with by an harlot.
• 8.  an “evil woman” – Prov. 6:24-35
  • also strange woman, adulteress, whore.
• 9.  a “contentious and an angry woman” – Prov. 21:19
  • contentious – Apt to contend; given to angry debate; quarrelsome; perverse.
• 10.  “a foolish woman” – Prov. 9:13 -18
  • clamorous –  Speaking and repeating loud words; noisy; vociferous; loud; turbulent.
  • simple – Weak in intellect; not wise or sagacious; silly. The simple believeth every word; but the prudent looketh well to his going. Prov. 14
• 11.  “a wise woman” – Prov. 14:1
• wise – Properly, having knowledge; hence, having the power of discerning and judging correctly, or of discriminating between what is true and what is false; between what is fit and proper, and what is improper; as a wise prince; a wise magistrate. Solomon was deemed the wisest man. But a man may be speculatively and not practically wise.
  • Characteristic – builds her house or home with wisdom.  “the words of God” is the foundation.
• 12.  “virtuous woman” – Prov. 12:4
  • virtuous – 1. Morally good; acting in conformity to the moral law; practicing the moral duties, and abstaining from vice; as a virtuous man. 2. Being in conformity to the moral or divine law; as a virtuous action; a virtuous life.

The mere performance of virtuous actions does not denominate an agent virtuous.

3. Chaste; applied to women.

• crown – Honor; splendor; dignity.