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Let your eyesעֵינֶיךָlookיַבִּיטוּstraight ahead,לְנֹכַחandוְlet your eyelidsעַפְעַפֶּיךָbe directed straightיַיְשִׁרוּbefore you.נֶגְדֶּךָ
Proverbs 4:25
Study it in the app“Let your eyes look straight ahead, and let your eyelids be directed straight before you.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Proverbs 4:25, word by word
- Let your eyesעֵינֶיene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears- lookיַבִּיטוּyabitu
look
Look intently, gaze; regard, pay attention to.
Where else “yabitu” appears- straight aheadנֹכַחnochach
straight ahead
Without turning aside, looking straight ahead.
Where else “nochach” appears- let your eyelidsעַפְעַפֶּיafape
eyelid
An eyelid; also an eyelash. In poetry, "the eyelids of the dawn" are the first rays of morning.
Where else “afape” appears- be directed straightיַיְשִׁרוּyayshiru
make straight
To keep a true course, or level the way.
Where else “yayshiru” appears- before youנֶגְדֶּnegde
in front of
In someone's presence, before his eyes.
Where else “negde” appears
The context
24Put away from you perversity of mouth, and deviousness of lips put far from you.
25 · This verse (above)
26Level the track of your feet, and let all your ways be firm.