Proverbs 4:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י לֶ֣קַח ט֭וֹב נָתַ֣תִּי לָכֶ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹרָתִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃

Transliteration

kî leqaḥ ṭôb nātattî lākem tôrātî ʾal-taʿazōbû

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*leqaḥ*: masculine singular noun - teaching/instruction/insight
*ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
*nātattî*: perfect, 1st person singular, qal - I have given
*lākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - to you
*tôrātî*: feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my instruction/law/teaching
*ʾal-taʿazōbû*: negative particle + imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural, qal - do not forsake/abandon

Word Meanings

*leqaḥ*: teaching/instruction/insight/doctrine
*tôrātî*: my teaching/instruction/law/doctrine

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain; My speech shall distil as the dew, As the small rain upon the tender grass, And as the showers upon the herb.
Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his children forsake my law, And walk not in mine ordinances; 31 If they break my statutes, And keep not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, And their iniquity with stripes.
Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things. 7 For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
Job 33:3 : 3 My words [shall utter] the uprightness of my heart; And that which my lips know they shall speak sincerely.
Ps 49:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Hear this, all ye peoples; Give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world, 2 Both low and high, Rich and poor together. 3 My mouth shall speak wisdom; And the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Prov 22:20-21 : 20 Have not I written unto thee excellent things Of counsels and knowledge, 21 To make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, That thou mayest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
John 7:16-17 : 16 Jesus therefore answered them and said, My teaching is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or [whether] I speak from myself.
1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed [until now]:
Titus 1:9 : 9 holding to the faithful word which is according to the teaching, that he may be able to exhort in the sound doctrine, and to convict the gainsayers.
1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
2 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Job 11:4 : 4 For thou sayest, My doctrine is pure, And I am clean in thine eyes.

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