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Commitגֹּלto YHWHאֶל יְהוָהyour works,מַעֲשֶׂיךָand your thoughtsמַחְשְׁבֹתֶיךָwill be established.וְיִכֹּנוּ
Proverbs 16:3
Study it in the app“Commit to YHWH your works, and your thoughts will be established.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 16:3, word by word
- Commitגֹּלgol
commit
To place your way on YHWH.
Where else “gol” appears- to YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- your worksמַעֲשֶׂיmaase
work
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appears- and your thoughtsמַחְשְׁבֹתֶיmachshvote
thought
What one has in mind and intends.
Where else “machshvote” appears- will be establishedיִכֹּנוּyikonu
establish
To make something firm, establish it.
Where else “yikonu” appears
The context
2All the ways of a man are clean in his eyes, but YHWH weighs the spirits.
3 · This verse (above)
4YHWH has made everything for its end, even the wicked for the day of evil.