Proverbs 23:26

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תְּנָֽה־בְנִ֣י לִבְּךָ֣ לִ֑י וְ֝עֵינֶ֗יךָ דְּרָכַ֥י *תרצנה **תִּצֹּֽרְנָה׃

Transliteration

tǝnāh my ḇǝnî your libbǝḵā to me, and your ʿêneḵā my dǝrāḵay tiṣṣōrnāh.

Grammar Details

• *tǝnāh*: qal imperative, masculine singular - give
• *ḇǝnî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person common singular suffix - my son
• *libbǝḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your heart
• *ʿêneḵā*: noun, feminine dual + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your eyes
• *dǝrāḵay*: noun, feminine plural + 1st person common singular suffix - my ways
• *tiṣṣōrnāh*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine plural - let observe/keep

Word Meanings

• *tǝnāh*: give/grant/present
• *libbǝḵā*: your heart/mind/inner being
• *ʿêneḵā dǝrāḵay tiṣṣōrnāh*: let your eyes observe my ways/may your eyes keep to my paths

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:2 : 2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart.
• Matt 10:37-38 : 37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. 38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• Deut 6:5 : 5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
• Ps 107:43 : 43 Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
• Eph 3:17 : 17 That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
• Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
• Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 4:25-27 : 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.
• Hos 14:9 : 9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
• Luke 14:26 : 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: 15 And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
• 2 Cor 8:5 : 5 And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.
• 2 Pet 1:19 : 19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts: