Leviticus 19:30

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י תִּירָ֑אוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה

Transliteration

ʾeṯ-šabbəṯōṯay tišmōrû û-miqdāšî tîrāʾû ʾănî YHWH

Grammar Details

• *ʾeṯ*: direct object marker
• *šabbəṯōṯay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my sabbaths
• *tišmōrû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall keep
• *û-miqdāšî*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - and my sanctuary
• *tîrāʾû*: Qal imperfect, 2nd masculine plural - you shall fear/revere
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular independent pronoun - I
• *YHWH*: proper noun - the LORD

Word Meanings

• *tišmōrû*: keep/observe/guard
• *miqdāšî*: my sanctuary/my holy place/my sacred place
• *tîrāʾû*: fear/revere/respect

Referenced Verses

• Lev 26:2 : 2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
• Lev 19:3 : 3 Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
• Eccl 5:1 : 1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
• Ps 89:7 : 7 God is greatly to be feared{H8737)} in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence{H8737)} of all them that are about him.
• Matt 21:13 : 13 And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
• John 2:15-16 : 15 And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; 16 And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Lev 16:2 : 2 And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
• 2 Chr 33:7 : 7 And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
• 2 Chr 36:14 : 14 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
• Gen 28:16-17 : 16 And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not. 17 And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.
• Exod 20:8 : 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
• Lev 15:31 : 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
• 1 Pet 4:17 : 17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
• Ezek 9:6 : 6 Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.