The Meaning of Proverbs 7:2 Explained

Proverbs 7:2

KJV: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

YLT: Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

Darby: Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

ASV: Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Keep  my commandments,  and live;  and my law  as the apple  of thine eye. 

What does Proverbs 7:2 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Proverbs 7

1  Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6  In an example of his own experience he shows
10  the cunning of a harlot
22  and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24  He detests such wickedness

What do the individual words in Proverbs 7:2 mean?

Keep my commands and live and my law as the apple of your eye
שְׁמֹ֣ר מִצְוֺתַ֣י וֶחְיֵ֑ה וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן עֵינֶֽיךָ

שְׁמֹ֣ר  Keep 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: שָׁמַר  
Sense: to keep, guard, observe, give heed.
מִצְוֺתַ֣י  my  commands 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: מִצְוָה  
Sense: commandment.
וֶחְיֵ֑ה  and  live 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine singular
Root: חָיָה  
Sense: to live, have life, remain alive, sustain life, live prosperously, live for ever, be quickened, be alive, be restored to life or health.
וְ֝תוֹרָתִ֗י  and  my  law 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: תֹּורָה  
Sense: law, direction, instruction.
כְּאִישׁ֥וֹן  as  the  apple 
Parse: Preposition-k, Noun, masculine singular construct
Root: אִישֹׁון 
Sense: pupil of the eye.
עֵינֶֽיךָ  of  your  eye 
Parse: Noun, cdc, second person masculine singular
Root: עֹונָה 
Sense: eye.