Exodus 20:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּבֵּ֥ד אֶת־אָבִ֖יךָ וְאֶת־אִמֶּ֑ךָ לְמַ֙עַן֙ יַאֲרִכ֣וּן יָמֶ֔יךָ עַ֚ל הָאֲדָמָ֔ה אֲשֶׁר־יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לָֽךְ׃

Transliteration

kabbēḏ ʾeṯ-ʾāḇîḵā wə-ʾeṯ-ʾimmeḵā ləmaʿan yaʾărîḵûn yāmeḵā ʿal hā-ʾăḏāmāh ʾăsher-YHWH ʾĕlōheḵā nōṯēn lāḵ

Grammar Details

*kabbēḏ*: piel imperative, masculine singular - honor
*ʾeṯ-ʾāḇîḵā*: direct object marker + masculine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your father
*wə-ʾeṯ-ʾimmeḵā*: conjunction + direct object marker + feminine singular noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - and your mother
*ləmaʿan*: conjunction - so that
*yaʾărîḵûn*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they may be long
*yāmeḵā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your days
*ʿal*: preposition - upon
*hā-ʾăḏāmāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
*ʾăsher*: relative pronoun - which
*YHWH*: proper name - LORD/YHWH
*ʾĕlōheḵā*: masculine plural noun construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your God
*nōṯēn*: qal participle, masculine singular - giving
*lāḵ*: preposition with 2nd masculine singular suffix - to you

Word Meanings

*kabbēḏ*: honor/glorify/make heavy (with respect)
*yaʾărîḵûn*: may be long/may be prolonged
*hā-ʾăḏāmāh*: the land/the ground/the earth/the soil

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Referenced Verses

Col 3:20 : 20 Children, obey your parents in all things, for this is well-pleasing in the Lord.
Mark 7:10 : 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Honor thy father and mother (which is the first commandment with promise), 3 that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
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.
Mark 10:19 : 19 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.
Luke 18:20 : 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor thy father and {G4675} mother.
Exod 21:15 : 15 And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.
Exod 21:17 : 17 And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall surely be put to death.
Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.
Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God]; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
Matt 19:19 : 19 Honor thy father and mother; and, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Lev 19:32 : 32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Deut 4:40 : 40 And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days in the land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Deut 5:16 : 16 Honor thy father and thy mother, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee; that thy days may be long, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deut 25:15 : 15 A perfect and just weight shalt thou have; a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
Deut 32:47 : 47 For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.
1 Kgs 2:19 : 19 Bath-sheba therefore went unto king Solomon, to speak unto him for Adonijah. And the king rose up to meet her, and bowed himself unto her, and sat down on his throne, and caused a throne to be set for the king's mother; and she sat on his right hand.
2 Kgs 2:12 : 12 And Elisha saw it, and he cried, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof! And he saw him no more: and he took hold of his own clothes, and rent them in two pieces.
Prov 1:8-9 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: 9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
Prov 3:16 : 16 Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Prov 15:5 : 5 A fool despiseth his father's correction; But he that regardeth reproof getteth prudence.
Prov 20:20 : 20 Whoso curseth his father or his mother, His lamp shall be put out in blackness of darkness.
Prov 23:22-25 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old. 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. 24 The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him. 25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
Prov 28:24 : 24 Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.
Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
Mal 1:6 : 6 A son honoreth his father, and a servant his master: if then I am a father, where is mine honor? and if I am a master, where is my fear? saith Jehovah of hosts unto you, O priests, that despise my name. And ye say, Wherein have we despised thy name?
Eph 5:21 : 21 subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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