Proverbs 3:22

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My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:	So shall they be life unto thy soul, and grace to thy neck.	Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

So shall they be life^H2416 unto thy soul^H5315, and grace^H2580 to thy neck^H1621.

Original Hebrew

וְיִהְיוּ חַיִּים לְנַפְשֶׁךָ וְחֵן לְגַרְגְּרֹתֶיךָ׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וְ/יִֽהְי֣וּ	ve./yih.Yu	H1961	HC/Vqi3mp	so/ they may be
חַיִּ֣ים	chai.Yim	H2416	HNcmpa	life
לְ/נַפְשֶׁ֑/ךָ	le./naf.She./kha	H5315	HR/Ncbsc/Sp2ms	for/ self/ your
וְ֝/חֵ֗ן	ve./Chen	H2580	HC/Ncmsa	and/ grace
לְ/גַרְגְּרֹתֶֽי/ךָ	le./gar.ge.ro.Tei./kha	H1621	HR/Ncfpc/Sp2ms	for/ neck/ your

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

Strong's References

H1621 — גַּרְגְּרוֹת (gargᵉrôwth, gar-gher-owth'): feminine plural from גָּרַר; the throat (as used in rumination); neck.
H2416 — חַי (chay, khah'-ee): from חָיָה; alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively; [phrase] age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, [phrase] merry, multitude, [phrase] (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
H2580 — חֵן (chên, khane): from חָנַן; graciousness, i.e. subjective (kindness, favor) or objective (beauty); favour, grace(-ious), pleasant, precious, (well-) favoured.
H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.

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

H1961 — הָיָה (hâyâh, haw-yaw): a primitive root (compare הָוָא); to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary); beacon, [idiom] altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, [phrase] follow, happen, [idiom] have, last, pertain, quit (one-) self, require, [idiom] use.

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