Breakfast with Solomon - Proverbs 7:5
Proverbs 7:5 "That they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words" The word foreigner is the Hebrew word nokri which means that which is foreign or strange. The word translated adulteress is the Hebrew word zur which is stranger. This is clearly a reference to the practice of allowing foreign women to ply their trade as prostitutes within a Jewish city. It also would suggest that everyone except the person you are to marry is strange or a