Leviticus 19:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִ֣ישׁ אִמּ֤וֹ וְאָבִיו֙ תִּירָ֔אוּ וְאֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֖י תִּשְׁמֹ֑רוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם

Transliteration

ʾîš ʾimmô wə-ʾāḇîw tîrāʾû wə-ʾeṯ-šabbəṯōṯay tišmōrû ʾănî YHWH ʾĕlōhêḵem

Grammar Details

• *ʾîš*: noun, masculine singular - each man/person/everyone
• *ʾimmô*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his mother
• *wə-ʾāḇîw*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and his father
• *tîrāʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall fear/respect
• *wə-ʾeṯ*: conjunction + direct object marker
• *šabbəṯōṯay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my sabbaths
• *tišmōrû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall keep/observe
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD
• *ʾĕlōhêḵem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your God

Word Meanings

• *ʾîš*: each person/everyone/each one
• *tîrāʾû*: you shall fear/respect/revere
• *tišmōrû*: you shall keep/guard/observe/maintain

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:8 : 8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
• Exod 20:12 : 12 Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
• Exod 21:15 : 15 Any man who gives a blow to his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death.
• Exod 21:17 : 17 Any man cursing his father or his mother is to be put to death.
• Exod 16:29 : 29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
• Lev 11:44 : 44 For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.
• Lev 26:2 : 2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
• Deut 21:18-21 : 18 If a man has a son who is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, who gives no attention to the voice of his father and mother, and will not be ruled by them, though they give him punishment: 19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place; 20 And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink. 21 Then he is to be stoned to death by all the men of the town: so you are to put away the evil from among you; and all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear.
• Deut 27:16 : 16 Cursed is he who does not give honour to his father or mother. And let all the people say, So be it.
• Prov 1:8 : 8 My son, give ear to the training of your father, and do not give up the teaching of your mother:
• Prov 6:20-21 : 20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother: 21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
• Prov 23:22 : 22 Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
• Prov 30:11 : 11 There is a generation who put a curse on their father, and do not give a blessing to their mother.
• Prov 30:17 : 17 The eye which makes sport of a father, and sees no value in a mother when she is old will be rooted out by the ravens of the valley, and be food for the young eagles.
• Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me: 5 I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off. 6 And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:
• Isa 58:13 : 13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
• Ezek 20:12 : 12 And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.
• Ezek 22:7-8 : 7 In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow. 8 You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.
• Mal 1:6 : 6 A son gives honour to his father, and a servant has fear of his master: if then I am a father, where is my honour? and if I am a master, where is the fear of me? says the Lord of armies to you, O priests, who give no value to my name. And you say, How have we not given value to your name?
• Matt 15:4-6 : 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
• Eph 6:1-3 : 1 Children, do what is ordered by your fathers and mothers in the Lord: for this is right. 2 Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward), 3 So that all may be well for you, and your life may be long on the earth.
• Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
• Exod 31:13-17 : 13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. 14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people. 15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. 16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. 17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.