Leviticus 19:30

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Jehovah.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י תִּירָ֑אוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

ʾeṯ-šabbəṯōṯay tišmōrû û-miqdāšî tîrāʾû ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *šabbəṯōṯay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my sabbaths
• *tišmōrû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall keep
• *û-miqdāšî*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - and my sanctuary
• *tîrāʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall fear/revere
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD

Word Meanings

• *tišmōrû*: keep/observe/guard
• *miqdāšî*: my sanctuary/my holy place/my sacred place
• *tîrāʾû*: fear/revere/respect

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:2 : 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
• Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.
• Eccl 5:1 : 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
• Ps 89:7 : 7 A God very terrible in the council of the holy ones, And to be feared above all them that are round about him?
• Matt 21:13 : 13 and he saith unto them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer: but ye make it a den of robbers.
• John 2:15-16 : 15 and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables; 16 and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Lev 16:2 : 2 and Jehovah said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil, before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.
• 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he set the graven image of the idol, which he had made, in the house of God, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted the house of Jehovah which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
• Gen 28:16-17 : 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely Jehovah is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
• Exod 20:8 : 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that Jehovah spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
• Lev 15:31 : 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them.
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time [is come] for judgment to begin at the house of God: and if [it begin] first at us, what [shall be] the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• Ezek 9:6 : 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.