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More than allמִכָּלthat is guarded,מִשְׁמָרguardנְצֹרyour heart,לִבֶּךָforכִּיfrom itמִמֶּנּוּcome the outgoingsתּוֹצְאוֹתof life.חַיִּים
Proverbs 4:23
Study it in the app“More than all that is guarded, guard your heart, for from it come the outgoings of life.”
Guard your heart, for from it flow the springs of lifePurityGuard your heart: all of life flows from itWisdom
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 4:23, word by word
- that is guardedמִשְׁמָרmishmar
watch
The service of watching over a place, with men posted there.
Where else “mishmar” appears- guardנְצֹרnetsor
guard
To be watchful in looking after and protecting someone or something.
Where else “netsor” appears- your heartלִבֶּlibe
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libe” appears- come the outgoingsתּוֹצְאוֹתtotsot
outlet
What comes out of something, like the springs from which one's life flows.
Where else “totsot” appears- of lifeחַיִּיםchayim
life
The span and strength of being alive, which come from God.
Where else “chayim” appears
The context
22For they are life to those who find them, and to all their flesh healing.
23 · This verse (above)
24Put away from you perversity of mouth, and deviousness of lips put far from you.