Proverbs 7:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֺתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

šmōr my miṣwōṯay and ḥyēh, and my tôrāṯî as ʾîšôn of your ʿênêḵā.

Grammar Details

*šmōr*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - keep/observe
*miṣwōṯay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person suffix - my commandments
*ḥyēh*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - live/be alive
*tôrāṯî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person suffix - my teaching/law/instruction
*ʾîšôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - pupil/apple
*ʿênêḵā*: noun, feminine dual construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your eyes

Word Meanings

*ʾîšôn*: pupil/apple/center
*tôrāṯî*: teaching/law/instruction

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Lev 18:5 : 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and mine ordinances; which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am Jehovah.
Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Prov 4:4 : 4 And he taught me, and said unto me: Let thy heart retain my words; Keep my commandments, and live;
Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And hereby we know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever {G3588} loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 Hereby {G5129} we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and do his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.
John 12:49-50 : 49 For I {G2980} spake not from myself; but the Father that sent me, he hath given me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life eternal: the things therefore which I speak, even as the Father hath said unto me, so I speak.
John 14:21 : 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.
John 15:14 : 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do the things which I command you.
Prov 4:13 : 13 Take fast hold of instruction; Let her not go: Keep her; For she is thy life.

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