Proverbs 31 has become the pin up poster, the hallmark of the so – called “Godly woman.” But what if it was fashioned for more, what if the picture of the woman in Proverbs 31 is not just about one woman, or even every women. What if it is a prophetic picture of the faithful in our generation. I submit to you, that it is! For too long, women everywhere have felt ashamed, disillusioned, confused and even disconnected from the modern day subservient woman that many proclaim as the Proverbs 31 woman.
This teaching is a gem, a fresh spring of water, this is a message, for you and for me. For every woman everywhere. There is no such thing as a virtuous woman, in fact the word never existed in Hebrew and it never featured in the Bible until the 16th century. The Eshet Chayil, is in fact a strong, warrior woman of God who rises in the present darkness with a sword in her hand and the Messiah in her heart.
Proverbs 31: 10
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies.
Virtuous, a word unknown and “unfound” in the Hebrew language. The word virtuous first arrived in Proverbs 31 in 1599 in the Geneva Bible which was among the most favoured English translation of the Bible in the 16th and 17th century. However, again theology and anti – woman doctrine spilled over in to the pages. Therefore the word virtuous with its implications needs to be thrown overboard in search of the original wording. Verse ten starts out with saying who can find an eshet chayil her worth is far above rubies.
Indeed it is, for the Hebrew word chayil means strength, valour, mighty, an army, power valiant, the main meaning for this word is a power. So who can find a strong, powerful warrior woman? It is she who is worth far more then rubies…
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