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Giveתְּנָהmeלִיyour heart,לִבְּךָmy son,בְנִיandוְlet your eyesעֵינֶיךָkeepתִּצֹּרְנָהmy ways.דְּרָכַי
Proverbs 23:26
Study it in the app“Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes keep my ways.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 23:26, word by word
- Giveתְּנָtena
give
To hand something over to someone: a gift, a payment, a charge or a land.
Where else “tena” appears- your heartלִבְּlib
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “lib” appears- my sonבְנִveni
son
The male born of a father and mother; in the plural, also sons and daughters.
Where else “veni” appears- let your eyesעֵינֶיene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears- keepתִּצֹּרְנָהtitsorna
guard
To be watchful in looking after and protecting someone or something.
Where else “titsorna” appears- my waysדְּרָכַderacha
manner
The way one lives and acts.
Where else “deracha” appears
The context
25Let your father and your mother be glad, and let her who bore you rejoice.
26 · This verse (above)
27For a prostitute is a deep pit, and a foreign woman is a narrow well.