Proverbs 23:26

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תְּנָֽה־בְנִ֣י לִבְּךָ֣ לִ֑י וְ֝עֵינֶ֗יךָ דְּרָכַ֥י *תרצנה **תִּצֹּֽרְנָה׃

Transliteration

tǝnāh my ḇǝnî your libbǝḵā to me, and your ʿêneḵā my dǝrāḵay tiṣṣōrnāh.

Grammar Details

• *tǝnāh*: qal imperative, masculine singular - give
• *ḇǝnî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - my son
• *libbǝḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your heart
• *ʿêneḵā*: noun, feminine dual + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your eyes
• *dǝrāḵay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person common singular suffix - my ways
• *tiṣṣōrnāh*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - let observe/keep

Word Meanings

• *tǝnāh*: give/grant/present
• *libbǝḵā*: your heart/mind/inner being
• *ʿêneḵā dǝrāḵay tiṣṣōrnāh*: let your eyes observe my ways/may your eyes keep to my paths

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:2 : 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.
• Matt 10:37-38 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed [thereto] according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
• Deut 6:5 : 5 and thou shalt love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
• Prov 4:4 : 4 And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Make level the path of thy feet, And let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: Remove thy foot from evil.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, that he may understand these things? prudent, that he may know them? for the ways of Jehovah are right, and the just shall walk in them; but transgressors shall fall therein.
• Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man cometh unto me, and hateth not his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that {G1487} one died for all, therefore {G599} all died; 15 and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.
• 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 and [this], not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.
• 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 And we have the word of prophecy [made] more sure; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a lamp shining in a dark place, until {G3757} the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts: