KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Proverbs 6:20–21
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Proverbs 6:20
20¶ My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
20¶ *My sonne, keepe thy fathers commandement, and forsake not the law of thy mother.
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Proverbs 6:21
21Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
21Binde them continually vpon thine heart, and tie them about thy necke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:20
To hold, preserve, guard, observe, maintain, restrain, or continue, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
commandment
An authoritative command, charge, order, or precept to be obeyed, as identified by the verse.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart from. To leave; to withdraw from; to fail. To abandon; to renounce; to reject.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A female parent; figuratively, a source, chief city, or maternal relation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Proverbs 6:21
To tie together, or confine with a cord, or any thing that is flexible; to fasten as with a band, fillet or ligature.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
continually
Very often; in repeated succession; from time to time; without pause or cessation; unceasingly.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
To bind, fasten, or secure with a cord, band, or other fastening.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Around, concerning, near, or engaged in; on every side or approximately, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 20
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Open the full verse study1CHILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
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Open the full verse study16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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Open the full verse study1MY 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.
3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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Open the full verse study8My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
9For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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Open the full verse study22Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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Open the full verse study18¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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Open the full verse study11There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
From verse 21
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Open the full verse study3Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
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Open the full verse study3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
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Open the full verse study3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
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Open the full verse study8And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
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Open the full verse study16And 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.
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Open the full verse study6Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
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Open the full verse study21Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
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