Proverbs

Proverbs 6:4–5

⁴Allow no sleep to your eyes

or slumber to your eyelids.

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,^b

like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

Footnotes

Word by word

Each English word or phrase beside the Hebrew it translates, in the order of the English. Choose a number to open that word’s study.

English	Hebrew	Sounds like	Grammar	Word study
Allow	תִּתֵּ֣ן	tit·tên	Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular	H5414 give, put, set
no	אַל־	’al-	Adverb	H408 prohibition, do not . . ., let not . . .
sleep	שֵׁנָ֣ה	šê·nāh	Noun - feminine singular	H8142 sleep
to your eyes	לְעֵינֶ֑יךָ	lə·‘ê·ne·ḵā	Preposition-l; Noun - cdc; second person masculine singular	H5869 eye
or slumber	וּ֝תְנוּמָ֗ה	ū·ṯə·nū·māh	Conjunctive waw; Noun - feminine singular	H8572 slumber
to your eyelids	לְעַפְעַפֶּֽיךָ׃	lə·‘ap̄·‘ap·pe·ḵā	Preposition-l; Noun - masculine dual construct; second person masculine singular	H6079 eyelid

English	Hebrew	Sounds like	Grammar	Word study
Free yourself	הִ֭נָּצֵל	hin·nā·ṣêl	Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine singular	H5337 strip, plunder
like a gazelle	כִּצְבִ֣י	kiṣ·ḇî	Preposition-k; Noun - masculine singular	H6643 beauty, honour
from the hand	מִיָּ֑ד	mî·yāḏ	Preposition-m; Noun - feminine singular	H3027 hand
like a bird	וּ֝כְצִפּ֗וֹר	ū·ḵə·ṣip·pō·wr	Conjunctive waw, Preposition-k; Noun - common singular	H6833 bird
from the snare	מִיַּ֥ד	mî·yaḏ	Preposition-m; Noun - feminine singular construct	H3027 hand
of the fowler	יָקֽוּשׁ׃פ	yā·qūš	Noun - masculine singular	H3353 id.

Other passages that speak to the same thing. Point at one to read it.

Proverbs 6:4 Psalm 132:4 · Proverbs 6:10–11 · Mark 13:35–36 · Ecclesiastes 9:10 · Matthew 24:17–18

Proverbs 6:5 Psalm 91:3 · Psalm 124:7

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.