Leviticus 19:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father; and ye shall keep my sabbaths: I am Jehovah your God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִ֣ישׁ אִמּ֤וֹ וְאָבִיו֙ תִּירָ֔אוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

ʾîš ʾimmô wə-ʾāḇîw tîrāʾû wə-ʾeṯ-šabbəṯōṯay tišmōrû ʾănî YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem

Grammar Details

• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - each man/person/everyone
• *ʾimmô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his mother
• *wə-ʾāḇîw*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his father
• *tîrāʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall fear/respect
• *wə-ʾeṯ*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *šabbəṯōṯay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my sabbaths
• *tišmōrû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall keep/observe
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *ʾĕlōhêḵem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your God

Word Meanings

• *ʾîš*: each person/everyone/each one
• *tîrāʾû*: you shall fear/respect/revere
• *tišmōrû*: you shall keep/guard/observe/maintain

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:8 : 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Exod 20:12 : 12 Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee.
• 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.
• Exod 16:29 : 29 See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.
• Lev 26:2 : 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
• Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; 19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
• Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
• Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother:
• Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep the commandment of thy father, And forsake not the law of thy mother: 21 Bind them continually upon thy heart; Tie them about thy neck.
• Prov 23:22 : 22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
• Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
• 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.
• Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For thus saith Jehovah of the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant: 5 Unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters; I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the foreigners that join themselves to Jehovah, to minister unto him, and to love the name of Jehovah, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast my covenant;
• Isa 58:13 : 13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, [and] the holy of Jehovah honorable; and shalt honor it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:
• Ezek 20:12 : 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them.
• Ezek 22:7-8 : 7 In thee have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the sojourner; in thee have they wronged the fatherless and the widow. 8 Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
• 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?
• 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.
• 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.
• Heb 12:9 : 9 Furthermore, {G3303} we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
• Exod 31:13-17 : 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you. 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah; whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.