Proverbs 7:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֺתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

šmōr my miṣwōṯay and ḥyēh, and my tôrāṯî as ʾîšôn of your ʿênêḵā.

Grammar Details

*šmōr*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - keep/observe
*miṣwōṯay*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person suffix - my commandments
*ḥyēh*: verb, qal imperative, masculine singular - live/be alive
*tôrāṯî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person suffix - my teaching/law/instruction
*ʾîšôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - pupil/apple
*ʿênêḵā*: noun, feminine dual construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your eyes

Word Meanings

*ʾîšôn*: pupil/apple/center
*tôrāṯî*: teaching/law/instruction

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Lev 18:5 : 5 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgments: which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the LORD.
Deut 32:10 : 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Prov 4:4 : 4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live.
Isa 55:3 : 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments. 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 5:1-3 : 1 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. 2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments. 3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Rev 22:14 : 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
John 12:49-50 : 49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting: whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.
John 14:21 : 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
John 15:14 : 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Prov 4:13 : 13 Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

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