Proverbs 16:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Commit thy works unto Jehovah, And thy purposes shall be established.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גֹּ֣ל אֶל־יְהוָ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֑יךָ וְ֝יִכֹּ֗נוּ מַחְשְׁבֹתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

gōl to-YHWH maʿăśêkā and yikkōnû maḥšᵉḇōtêkā

Grammar Details

• *gōl*: verb, Qal imperative, masculine singular - roll/commit/entrust
• *ʾel*: preposition - to/toward
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *maʿăśêkā*: noun, masculine, plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your works/deeds/actions
• *wᵉ*: conjunction - and
• *yikkōnû*: verb, Niphal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they will be established/fixed/prepared
• *maḥšᵉḇōtêkā*: noun, feminine, plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your thoughts/plans/intentions

Word Meanings

• *gōl*: roll/commit/entrust
• *yikkōnû*: they will be established/made firm/successful

Referenced Verses

• Ps 37:4-5 : 4 Delight thyself also in Jehovah; And he will give thee the desires of thy heart. 5 Commit thy way unto Jehovah; Trust also in him, and he will bring it to pass.
• Prov 3:6 : 6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.
• Ps 55:22 : 22 Cast thy burden upon Jehovah, and he will sustain thee: He will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
• Phil 4:6 : 6 In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
• 1 Pet 5:7 : 7 casting all your anxiety upon him, because he careth for you.
• Matt 6:25-34 : 25 Therefore I say unto you, be not anxious for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than the food, and the body than the raiment? 26 Behold the birds of the heaven, that they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not ye of much more value then they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add one cubit unto the measure of his life? 28 And why are ye anxious concerning raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 But if God doth so clothe the grass of the field, which to-day is, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, [shall he] not much more [clothe] you, O ye of little faith? 31 Be not therefore anxious, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow: for the morrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
• Luke 12:22 : 22 And he said unto his disciples, Therefore {G5124} I say unto you, Be not anxious for [your] life, what ye shall eat; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.
• Job 22:28 : 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee; And light shall shine upon thy ways.
• Job 5:8 : 8 But as for me, I would seek unto God, And unto God would I commit my cause;
• Isa 7:5-7 : 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying, 6 Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel; 7 thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.