Proverbs - 7:3



3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Explanation and meaning of Proverbs 7:3.

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Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

Bind them upon thy fingers - See on Proverbs 3:3 (note).

Bind them upon thy fingers,.... Let the above words and doctrines be as ready and familiar as if they were at the fingers' ends; or let them be always fresh in memory, as a piece of thread is tied about the fingers, to put in mind of anything to be done; or let them be as rings upon the fingers, both memorial and ornamental: or put into practice the things taught and commanded; the fingers being the instruments of action, and especially of doing things nicely and accurately;
write them upon the table of thine heart; that they may be strong in the memory, deep in the affection, and abiding in the understanding and will; see Proverbs 3:3.

Bind . . . fingers--as inscriptions on rings.

Bind them - As a ring which is continually in a man's eye.

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