Deuteronomy 11:18
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes."
Word-by-Word Analysis
כֵּן
kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
דָּבָר
dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
אָסַר
ʼâçar
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
אוֹת
ʼôwth
a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
בֵּין
bêyn
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
עַיִן
ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Key Terms in This Verse
אָסַר ʼâçar
to yoke or hitch; by analogy, to fasten in any sense, to join battle
Study H631 →אוֹת ʼôwth
a signal (literally or figuratively), as aflag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.
Study H226 →בֵּין bêyn
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
Study H996 →נָתַן nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
Study H5414 →נֶפֶשׁ nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
Study H5315 →עַיִן ʻayin
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
Study H5869 →דָּבָר dâbâr
a word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause
Study H1697 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →כֵּן kên
properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner, time and relation; often with other particles)
Study H3651 →Cross References
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.
And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
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