Proverbs 7:3

Proverbs 7:3 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
• New International Version (NIV)Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
• English Standard Version (ESV)bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Context of Proverbs 7:3

1My son, keep my words and treasure my mitzvot within you. 2Keep my mitzvot and live, my teaching as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your relative. 5They will keep you from a seducing woman, from the foreign woman with her seductive speech.

Proverbs 7:3 word by word

קָשְׁרֵ֥ם עַל־אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ כָּ֝תְבֵ֗ם עַל־ל֥וּחַ לִבֶּֽךָ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Bindקָשַׁרqâshar · to conspireH7194
• them upon thy fingersאֶצְבַּע'etsba‛ · fingerH676
• writeכָּתַבkâthab · to writeH3789
• them upon the tableלוּחַlûach lûach · tabletH3871
• of thine heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820

Cross-references for Proverbs 7:3

• Proverbs 3:3Let kindness and truth never leave you— bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
• Proverbs 6:21Bind them on your heart continually— tie them around your neck.
• Deuteronomy 6:8Bind them as a sign on your hand, they are to be as frontlets between your eyes,
• Deuteronomy 11:18“Therefore you are to set these words of Mine in your heart and in your soul. You are to bind them as a sign on your hand, and as frontlets between your eyes.
• Isaiah 30:8Now go, write it on a tablet for them and inscribe it in a scroll, so that it may be as a witness for the last day, forever.
• Jeremiah 17:1Judah’s sin is written with an iron pen and with a point of a diamond, engraved on the tablet of their heart and on the horns of your altars.
• Jeremiah 31:33No longer will each teach his neighbor or each his brother, saying: ‘Know Adonai,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest.” it is a declaration of Adonai. “For I will forgive their iniquity, their sin I will remember no more.”
• 2 Corinthians 3:3It is clear that you are a letter from Messiah delivered by us—written not with ink but with the Ruach of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

Commentaries on Proverbs 7:3

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Bind them upon thy fingers - See on Proverbs 3:3; (note).Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The Old Testament uses the phrase "tie them to your fingers" as a reminder to remember important things, especially God's commands (Deuteronomy 6:8; 11:18). The New Living Translation's "write them deep within your heart" reflects the Hebrew saying write them on the tablet of your heart (see also Proverbs 3:3). Only obedience that comes from the heart will endure.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).Read the comment

Topics related to Proverbs 7:3

• Chastity
• Commandments
• Wisdom
• Young Men

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Commentaries on Proverbs 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings