Proverbs 23:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַל־תַּ֭סֵּג גְּב֣וּל עוֹלָ֑ם וּבִשְׂדֵ֥י יְ֝תוֹמִ֗ים אַל־תָּבֹֽא׃

Transliteration

Not tassēḡ gǝḇûl ʿôlām, and into śǝḏê yǝṯômîm not tāḇōʾ.

Grammar Details

*tassēḡ*: hiphil imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - move back/remove
*gǝḇûl*: noun, masculine singular - boundary/border
*ʿôlām*: noun, masculine singular - ancient/everlasting/old
*śǝḏê*: noun, masculine plural construct - fields of
*yǝṯômîm*: noun, masculine plural - orphans/fatherless
*tāḇōʾ*: qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - enter/come

Word Meanings

*tassēḡ gǝḇûl ʿôlām*: remove ancient boundary/move back long-established border
*śǝḏê yǝṯômîm*: fields of orphans/lands of the fatherless
*tāḇōʾ*: enter/come/go into/trespass

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Referenced Verses

Prov 22:28 : 28 Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
Jer 22:3 : 3 Thus saith the LORD; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Zech 7:10 : 10 And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.
Deut 19:14 : 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Deut 27:17 : 17 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Job 6:27 : 27 Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend.
Job 22:9 : 9 Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Job 24:2-3 : 2 Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof. 3 They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.
Job 24:9 : 9 They pluck the fatherless from the breast, and take a pledge of the poor.
Job 31:21-23 : 21 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate: 22 Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone. 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Ps 94:6 : 6 They slay{H8799)} the widow and the stranger, and murder{H8762)} the fatherless.
Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
Jas 1:27 : 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Jer 7:5 : 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

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