King James Version
Exodus 20:12 in the King James Version says “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”
Exodus 20:12 · KJV
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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“Honour”
H3513to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“thy father”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and thy mother”
H517a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively [like father])
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
“that thy days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“which the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“thy God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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