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1 Kings 8

1 Kings 8:61 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Let your heart
lebab (Hebrew #3824)
the heart (as the most interior organ); used also like 3820
KJV usage: + bethink themselves, breast, comfortably, courage, ((faint), (tender-)heart((-ed)), midst, mind, X unawares, understanding.
Pronounce: lay-bawb'
Origin: from 3823
therefore bec perfect
shalem (Hebrew #8003)
complete (literally or figuratively); especially friendly
KJV usage: full, just, made ready, peaceable, perfect(-ed), quiet, Shalem (by mistake for a name), whole.
Pronounce: shaw-lame'
Origin: from 7999
with the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
our God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, to walk
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
in his statutes
choq (Hebrew #2706)
an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
KJV usage: appointed, bound, commandment, convenient, custom, decree(-d), due, law, measure, X necessary, ordinance(- nary), portion, set time, statute, task.
Pronounce: khoke
Origin: from 2710
, and to keep
shamar (Hebrew #8104)
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
KJV usage: beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).
Pronounce: shaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
his commandments
mitsvah (Hebrew #4687)
a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)
KJV usage: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.
Pronounce: mits-vaw'
Origin: from 6680
, as at this day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a 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 associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
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Deut. 18:13• 13Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God. (Deut. 18:13)

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Ministry on This Verse

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1 Kings 11:4• 4For it came to pass, when Solomon was old, that his wives turned away his heart after other gods: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as was the heart of David his father. (1 Kings 11:4)
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1 Kings 15:3,14• 3He walked, in all the sins of his father, which he had done before him: and his heart was not perfect with Jehovah his God, as the heart of David his father.
 14{i}But the high places were not removed; only{/i}, Asa's heart was perfect , with Jehovah all his days. (1 Kings 15:3,14)
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Gen. 17:1• 1When Abram was ninety-nine years old, Jehovah appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me and be thou perfect. (Gen. 17:1)
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Deut. 18:13• 13Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God. (Deut. 18:13)
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2 Kings 20:3• 3I beseech, O Jehovah, remember now how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in thy sight. And Hezekiah wept sore. (2 Kings 20:3)
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1 Chron. 28:9• 9{i}And thou, Solomon my son, know the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Jehovah searches all hearts, and discerns all the imaginations of the thoughts. If thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cut thee off forever.{/i} (1 Chron. 28:9)
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Job 1:1,8• 1There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and fearing God, and eschewing evil.
 8And Jehovah said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, and fearing God, and eschewing evil? (Job 1:1,8)
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Psa. 37:37• 37Mark the perfect [man]{HR}And behold the upright [man],{HR}For the end to [that] man [is] peace. (Psa. 37:37)
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2 Cor. 7:1• 1Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear. (2 Cor. 7:1)
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Phil. 3:12‑16• 12Not that I already received [it] or am already perfected; but I pursue if I may also lay hold, for that also I have been laid hold of by Christ.
 13Brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold;
 14but one thing(for-getting the things behind, and stretching out to the things before, I pursue goalward unto the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
 15As many therefore as [are] perfect, let us mind this. And if in anything ye are differently minded, this also will God reveal to you.
 16Nevertheless unto what we have attained, walk by the same, [mind the same]. (Phil. 3:12‑16)
• Again the legal condition, impossible for this fallible king and people to fulfill – that which shall find its accomplishment in Christ alone! (“The Dedication of the Temple: 1 Kings 8” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

W. Kelly Translation

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and that your heart may be perfect with Jehovah our God, to walk in his statutes and to keep his commandments, as at this day.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)