KING JAMES VERSION (KJV)
TRANSLATION, MEANING, CONTEXT
To get what Deuteronomy 11:18 means based on its source text, scroll down or follow these links for the original scriptural meaning , biblical context and relative popularity.
“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.”
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| KJV Verse | Original Hebrew | Meaning/ Definition This is a simplified translation of the original Hebrew word. Follow the buttons on the right to get more detail. | More Use the buttons below to get details on the Hebrew word and view related Bible verses that use the same root word. |
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| “Therefore shall ye lay up” | וְשַׂמְתֶּם֙ | To put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically) | Therefore lay up |
| “these” | אֵ֔לֶּה | These or those | these |
| “my words” | דְּבָרַ֣י | A word; by implication, a matter (as spoken of) or thing; adverbially, a cause | words |
| “in” | עַל | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | in |
| “your heart” | לְבַבְכֶ֖ם | The heart (as the most interior organ) | heart |
| “and in” | וְעַֽל | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | and in |
| “your soul,” | נַפְשְׁכֶ֑ם | Properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) | soul |
| “and bind” | וּקְשַׁרְתֶּ֨ם | To tie, physically (gird, confine, compact) or mentally (in love, league) | bind |
| “them for a sign” | לְאוֹת֙ | A signal (literally or figuratively), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc | sign |
| “upon” | עַל | Above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications | upon |
| “your hand,” | יֶדְכֶ֔ם | A hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows] | hand |
| “that they may be” | וְהָי֥וּ | To exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary) | that they may be |
| “as frontlets” | לְטֽוֹטָפֹ֖ת | A fillet for the forehead | frontlets |
| “between” | בֵּ֥ין | Between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or | between |
| “your eyes.” | עֵֽינֵיכֶֽם׃ | An eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape) | eyes |
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16 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
17 And then the Lord's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord giveth you.
18 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.
19 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
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