Proverbs 4:21–22
Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.
For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
†For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- †Hebrew wordingHeb. medicine.
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Proverbs 4:21
Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.
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1. To leave, go away, or move from a place or person. 2. To cease to remain, be removed, disappear, or pass away. 3. To turn or separate from a way, practice, allegiance, or relationship. 4. To leave earthly life or this world.
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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.
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To guard, watch, protect, preserve, secure, retain, possess, hold, maintain, support, tend, manage, observe, obey, fulfil, celebrate, continue in, refrain from, or remain faithful to a person, place, trust, command, promise, way, time, or thing.
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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.
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The middle, centre, interior, or intervening part of a place, body, company, or condition; among, within, surrounded by, or in the presence of persons or things.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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Proverbs 4:22
1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.
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The state of living; the period or manner of one's existence.
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To discover, meet with, obtain, perceive, or learn by search or experience.
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Sense 1: Soundness or well-being of body. Sense 2: Healing, cure, or restoration to soundness. Sense 3: Saving help or deliverance.
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Sense 1: The soft substance of the body. Sense 2: The body, human nature, kindred, or mankind.
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20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
20¶ My sonne, attend to my words, incline thine eare vnto my sayings.
21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
21Let them not depart from thine eyes: keepe them in the midst of thine heart.
Selected passage22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
22†For they are life vnto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Selected passage23¶ Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
23¶ †Keepe thy heart with all diligence: for out of it are the issues of life.