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Proverbs 4:21

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Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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  1. Proverbs 3:21Rank 1 from verse 21
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    21¶ My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:

  2. Proverbs 3:3Rank 2 from verse 21
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    3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:

  3. Proverbs 7:1–2Rank 3 from verse 21
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    1MY son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

    2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

  4. Psalms 40:8Rank 4 from verse 21
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    8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

  5. Proverbs 2:1Rank 5 from verse 21
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    1MY son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

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Proverbs 4:21

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

depart

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

eyes

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

keep

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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in

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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.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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midst

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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

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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20¶ My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.

21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.

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22For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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