11 translations · Hebrew
Proverbs 2:1
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
Proverbs 2:1 in 11 translations
- WEB World English Bible
- My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
- KJV King James Version
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
- ASV American Standard Version
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, And lay up my commandments with thee;
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- My son, if you accept my sayings, || And lay up my commands with you,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- My son, if you accept what I say and value my instructions,
- YLT Young’s Literal Translation
- My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,
- DBY Darby Translation
- My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you,
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commandments with thee,
The Hebrew words
Each word of the Hebrew text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ֭נִי | bə·nî | My son | H1121 בֵּן son: child |
| אִם־ | ’im- | if | H518 אִם if |
| תִּקַּ֣ח | tiq·qaḥ | you accept | H3947 לָקַח to take: take |
| אֲמָרָ֑י | ’ă·mā·rāy | my words | H561 אֵמֶר word |
| וּ֝מִצְוֺתַ֗י | ū·miṣ·wō·ṯay | my commandments | H4687 מִצְוָה commandment |
| תִּצְפֹּ֥ן | tiṣ·pōn | and hide | H6845 צָפַן to treasure |
| אִתָּֽךְ׃ | ’it·tāḵ | within you | H854 אֵת with |
Related verses
- Proverbs 3:1
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:
- Proverbs 1:3
to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity;
- Proverbs 4:1
Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;
- John 12:47–48
If anyone listens to my sayings, and doesn’t believe, I don’t judge him. For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.
- Deuteronomy 6:6–9
These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart; and you shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise up. You shall bind them for a sign on your hand, and they shall be for frontlets between your eyes. …
- Proverbs 7:1
My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
- Proverbs 4:20–22
My son, attend to my words. Turn your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the center of your heart. For they are life to those who find them, and health to their whole body.
- Psalm 119:9–11
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments. I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
- Proverbs 6:21
Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.
- Job 23:12
I haven’t gone back from the commandment of his lips. I have treasured up the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Read all of Proverbs 2 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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