Joshua 1:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹֽא־יָמ֡וּשׁ סֵפֶר֩ הַתּוֹרָ֨ה הַזֶּ֜ה מִפִּ֗יךָ וְהָגִ֤יתָ בּוֹ֙ יוֹמָ֣ם וָלַ֔יְלָה לְמַ֙עַן֙ תִּשְׁמֹ֣ר לַעֲשׂ֔וֹת כְּכָל־הַכָּת֖וּב בּ֑וֹ כִּי־אָ֛ז תַּצְלִ֥יחַ אֶת־דְּרָכֶ֖ךָ וְאָ֥ז תַּשְׂכִּֽיל

Transliteration

Not-yāmûsh sēfer the tôrāh the-this from-pîkā and-hāgîtā in-it yômām and-laylāh so-that tishmōr to-laʿăśôt as-all-the-kātûb in-it for-then tatsliăḥ ʾet-dǝrākekā and-then taśkîl

Grammar Details

• *yāmûsh*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - it will depart
• *sēfer*: noun, masculine singular construct - book of
• *tôrāh*: noun, feminine singular - law/instruction
• *pîkā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your mouth
• *hāgîtā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall meditate
• *yômām*: adverb - by day/daytime
• *laylāh*: noun, masculine singular - night
• *tishmōr*: qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will observe
• *laʿăśôt*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to do/perform
• *kātûb*: qal passive participle masculine singular - written
• *tatsliăḥ*: hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will make prosperous
• *dǝrākekā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your way
• *taśkîl*: hiphil imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you will be successful/prosper

Word Meanings

• *yāmûsh*: depart/move away/cease
• *sēfer*: book/scroll/document
• *tôrāh*: law/instruction/teaching
• *hāgîtā*: meditate/mutter/contemplate
• *tishmōr*: observe/keep/watch
• *tatsliăḥ*: make prosperous/be successful
• *taśkîl*: be successful/act wisely/prosper

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:15 : 15 I will give thought to your orders, and have respect for your ways.
• Ps 19:14 : 14 Let the words of my mouth and the thoughts of my heart be pleasing in your eyes, O Lord, my strength and my salvation.
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
• Luke 11:28 : 28 But he said, More happy are they who give hearing to the word of God and keep it.
• John 14:21 : 21 He who has my laws and keeps them, he it is who has love for me: and he who has love for me will be loved by my Father, and I will have love for him and will let myself be seen clearly by him.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
• Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. 23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; 24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
• Matt 7:24 : 24 Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;
• Deut 29:9 : 9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.
• Ps 119:97 : 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.
• Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.
• Prov 2:1-5 : 1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind; 2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge; 3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge; 4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
• Deut 11:18-19 : 18 So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow; 19 Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:
• Matt 7:21 : 21 Not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will go into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the pleasure of my Father in heaven.
• John 13:17 : 17 If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.
• Deut 5:29 : 29 If only they had such a heart in them at all times, so that they might go in fear of me and keep my orders and that it might be well for them and for their children for ever!
• Josh 1:7 : 7 Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.
• Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:
• Ps 119:42-43 : 42 So that I may have an answer for the man who would put me to shame; for I have faith in your word. 43 Take not your true word quite out of my mouth; for I have put my hope in your decisions.
• Ps 1:1-3 : 1 Happy is the man who does not go in the company of sinners, or take his place in the way of evil-doers, or in the seat of those who do not give honour to the Lord. 2 But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night. 3 He will be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, which gives its fruit at the right time, whose leaves will ever be green; and he will do well in all his undertakings.
• Deut 5:32-6:3 : 32 Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left. 33 Go on walking in the way ordered for you by the Lord your God, so that life may be yours and it may be well for you, and your days may be long in the land of your heritage. 1 Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going: 2 So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long. 3 So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
• Deut 30:14 : 14 But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, so that you may do it.
• Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the good man says words of wisdom; the talk of his tongue is of righteousness. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.
• Eph 4:29 : 29 Let no evil talk come out of your mouth, but only what is good for giving necessary teaching, and for grace to those who give ear.
• Matt 12:35 : 35 The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
• Matt 28:20 : 20 Teaching them to keep all the rules which I have given you: and see, I am ever with you, even to the end of the world.
• 1 Tim 4:14-16 : 14 Make use of that grace in you, which was given to you by the word of the prophets, when the rulers of the church put their hands on you. 15 Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward. 16 Give attention to yourself and your teaching. Go on in these things; for in doing so you will get salvation for yourself and for those who give hearing to you.
• Deut 31:11 : 11 When all Israel has come before the Lord your God in the place named by him, let a reading be given of this law in the hearing of all Israel.
• Ps 40:10 : 10 Your righteousness has not been folded away in my heart; I have made clear your true word and your salvation; I have not kept secret your mercy or your faith from the great meeting.
• Isa 59:21 : 21 And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.
• Deut 17:18-19 : 18 And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care: 19 And it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of this teaching and these laws:
• Ps 119:99 : 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.
• Rev 22:14 : 14 A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.