Deuteronomy 5:20

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Neither shalt thou steal.	Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.	Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour's.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Neither shalt thou bear^H6030 false^H7723 witness^H5707 against thy neighbour^H7453.

Original Hebrew

וְלֹא־תַעֲנֶה בְרֵעֲךָ עֵד שָׁוְא׃ ס

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/לֹֽא	ve./lo'-	H3808	HC/Tn	and/ not
תַעֲנֶ֥ה	ta.'a.Neh	H6030	HVqi2ms	you must testify
בְ/רֵֽעֲ/ךָ֖	ve./re.'a./Kha	H7453	HR/Ncmsc/Sp2ms	against/ neighbor/ your
עֵ֥ד	'ed	H5707	HNcmsc	testimony of
שָֽׁוְא	Shav'	H7723	HNcmsa	falsehood

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H5707 — עֵד (ʻêd, ayd): contracted from עוּד; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince; witness.
H6030 — עָנָה (ʻânâh, aw-naw'): a primitive root; properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce; give account, afflict (by mistake for עָנָה), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for עָנָה), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, [idiom] scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also בֵּית עֲנוֹת, בֵּית עֲנָת.
H7453 — רֵעַ (rêaʻ, ray'-ah): or רֵיעַ; from רָעָה; an associate (more or less close); brother, companion, fellow, friend, husband, lover, neighbour, [idiom] (an-) other.
H7723 — שָׁוְא (shâvᵉʼ, shawv): or שַׁו; from the same as שׁוֹא in the sense of desolating; evil (as destructive), literally (ruin) or morally (especially guile); figuratively idolatry (as false, subjective), uselessness (as deceptive, objective; also adverbially, in vain); false(-ly), lie, lying, vain, vanity.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H3808 — לֹא (lôʼ, lo): or לוֹא; or לֹה; (Deuteronomy 3:11), a primitive particle; not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles; [idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as truly as, [phrase] of a truth, [phrase] verily, for want, [phrase] whether, without.

Cross References

Related Topics

Nave’s: COMMANDMENTS, DECALOGUE, FALSE TEACHERS, LAW, OBEDIENCE, TABLE

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