Proverbs 7 · Verse 3

Proverbs 7:3

Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Proverbs 7:3, King James Version

Proverbs 7:3 in other translations

BSBTie them to your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
WEBBind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
ASVBind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
YLTBind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.
DARBYBind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
BBELet them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
WebsterBind 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.).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Bind them upon thy fingers - See on Pro 3:3 (note).

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

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…

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Proverbs 7:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קָשְׁרֵ֥םka.she.Rembind themH7194
עַל\־'al-onH5921
אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑יךָ'etz.be.'o.Tei.khafingers yourH676
כָּ֝תְבֵ֗םka.te.Vemwrite themH3789
עַל\־'al-onH5921
ל֥וּחַLu.ach[the] tablet ofH3871
לִבֶּֽךָ\׃li.Be.khaheart yourH3820

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:3; 6:21; De 6:8,9; 11:18-20; Isa 30:8; Jer 17:1; 31:33; 2Co 3:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

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:

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Proverbs 7:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Lígalos á tus dedos; escríbelos en la tabla de tu corazón.
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.