1 Kings 8:61

KJV1611 – Modern English

Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֤ה לְבַבְכֶם֙ שָׁלֵ֔ם עִ֖ם יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵ֑ינוּ לָלֶ֧כֶת בְּחֻקָּ֛יו וְלִשְׁמֹ֥ר מִצְוֺתָ֖יו כַּיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

And-hāyâ ləbabkem šālēm with YHWH ʾĕlōhênû, to-lāleket in-ḥuqqāyw and-to-lišmōr miṣwōtāyw as-the-yôm the-zeh.

Grammar Details

• *hāyâ*: Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - may it be
• *ləbabkem*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your heart
• *šālēm*: adjective, masculine singular - complete/perfect
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: noun, masculine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - our God
• *lāleket*: Qal infinitive construct - to walk
• *ḥuqqāyw*: noun, masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his statutes
• *lišmōr*: Qal infinitive construct - to keep/observe
• *miṣwōtāyw*: noun, feminine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his commandments
• *yôm*: noun, masculine singular - day
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this

Word Meanings

• *hāyâ*: may it be/let it be
• *ləbabkem*: your heart/your mind/your inner being
• *šālēm*: complete/whole/perfect/at peace
• *lāleket*: to walk/to follow/to live
• *ḥuqqāyw*: his statutes/his decrees
• *lišmōr*: to keep/to observe/to guard
• *miṣwōtāyw*: his commandments/his orders

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  May your hearts be fully devoted to the LORD our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as it is today.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Let your heart{H3824} therefore be perfect{H8003} with Jehovah{H3068} our God,{H430} to walk{H3212} in his statutes,{H2706} and to keep{H8104} his commandments,{H4687} as at this day.{H3117}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Let your heart{H3824} therefore be perfect{H8003} with the LORD{H3068} our God{H430}, to walk{H3212}{(H8800)} in his statutes{H2706}, and to keep{H8104}{(H8800)} his commandments{H4687}, as at this day{H3117}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And let youre hert be perfecte with the LORDE oure God, to walke in his statutes, and to kepe his commaundementes, as it is this daye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Let your heart therefore be perfit with the Lorde our God to walke in his statutes, and to keepe his commandements, as this day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Let your heart therfore be perfect with the Lord our God, that ye walke in his statutes, and kepe his commaundementes, as this day.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Let your heart therefore be perfect with the LORD our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and your heart hath been perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in His statutes, and to keep His commands, as `at' this day.'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Let your heart therefore be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then let your hearts be without sin before the Lord our God, walking in his laws and keeping his orders as at this day.

• World English Bible (2000)

  "Let your heart therefore be perfect with Yahweh our God, to walk in his statutes, and to keep his commandments, as at this day."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  May you demonstrate wholehearted devotion to the LORD our God by following his rules and obeying his commandments, as you are presently doing.”

Referenced Verses

• 1 Kgs 11:4 : 4 For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned his heart after other gods, and his heart was not perfect with the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 I beg You, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before You in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done what is good in Your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
• 1 Kgs 15:3 : 3 He walked in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him; his heart was not right with the LORD his God, as the heart of David his father.
• 1 Kgs 15:14 : 14 But the high places were not removed; nevertheless, Asa's heart was perfect with the LORD all his days.
• Deut 18:13 : 13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
• Gen 17:1 : 1 And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before me and be perfect.
• 1 Chr 28:9 : 9 And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and a willing mind: for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts: if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God and avoided evil.
• Job 1:8 : 8 And the LORD said to Satan, "Have you considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God and shuns evil?"
• Ps 37:37 : 37 Mark the blameless man, and observe the upright, for the end of that man is peace.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Phil 3:12-16 : 12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brothers, I do not count myself to have laid hold; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us, therefore, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think differently, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.