Proverbs 4:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י לֶ֣קַח ט֭וֹב נָתַ֣תִּי לָכֶ֑ם תּֽ֝וֹרָתִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעֲזֹֽבוּ׃

Transliteration

kî leqaḥ ṭôb nātattî lākem tôrātî ʾal-taʿazōbû

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - for/because
*leqaḥ*: masculine singular noun - teaching/instruction/insight
*ṭôb*: adjective, masculine singular - good
*nātattî*: perfect, 1st person singular, qal - I have given
*lākem*: preposition + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - to you
*tôrātî*: feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my instruction/law/teaching
*ʾal-taʿazōbû*: negative particle + imperfect, 2nd person masculine plural, qal - do not forsake/abandon

Word Meanings

*leqaḥ*: teaching/instruction/insight/doctrine
*tôrātî*: my teaching/instruction/law/doctrine

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:2 : 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
Ps 89:30-32 : 30 If his children forsake{H8799)} my law, and walk{H8799)} not in my judgments; 31 If they break{H8762)} my statutes, and keep{H8799)} not my commandments; 32 Then will I visit{H8804)} their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.
Prov 8:6-9 : 6 Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. 7 For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. 8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. 9 They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
Job 33:3 : 3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.
Ps 49:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)}, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. Hear{H8798)} this, all ye people; give ear{H8685)}, all ye inhabitants{H8802)} of the world: 2 Both low and high, rich and poor, together. 3 My mouth shall speak{H8762)} of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
Prov 22:20-21 : 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge, 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
John 7:16-17 : 16 Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
1 Tim 4:6 : 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
Titus 1:9 : 9 Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the LORD searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.
2 Chr 7:19 : 19 But if ye turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;
Job 11:4 : 4 For thou hast said, My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in thine eyes.

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