Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Proverbs 7:3 in other translations
| BSB | Tie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. |
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| WEB | Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart. |
| ASV | Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart. |
| YLT | Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart. |
| DARBY | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart. |
| BBE | Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart. |
| Webster | Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart. |
What does Proverbs 7:3 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:1-4
Pr 7:1-27. The subject continued, by a delineation of the arts of strange women, as a caution to the unwary. 1-4. Similar calls (Pr 3:1-3; 4:10, &c.).
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:1-5
We must lay up God's commandments safely. Not only, Keep them, and you shall live; but, Keep them as those that cannot live without them. Those that blame strict and careful walking as needless and too precise, consider not that the law is to be kept as the apple of the eye; indeed the law in the heart is the eye of the soul. Let the word of God dwell in us, and so be written where it will be always at hand to be…
Proverbs 7:3 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:3
- Deuteronomy 11:18-20
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. 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. And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
- Proverbs 3:3
Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
- Deuteronomy 6:8-9
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes. And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
- Jeremiah 31:33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
- 2 Corinthians 3:3
Forasmuch 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.
- Isaiah 30:8
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:
- Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
- Jeremiah 17:1
The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond: it is graven upon the table of their heart, and upon the horns of your altars;
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Context
- Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
- Proverbs 7:3
Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
- Proverbs 7:4
Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
Proverbs 7:3 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Lígalos á tus dedos; escríbelos en la tabla de tu corazón. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Lie-les sur tes doigts, écris-les sur la tablette de ton cœur. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Binde sie um deine Finger, schreibe sie auf die Tafel deines Herzens. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | liga eam in digitis tuis, scribe illam in tabulis cordis tui. |