16 He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his soul; but he that despiseth His ways shall die.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Proverbs 19:16. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
שֹׁמֵ֣ר מִ֭צְוָה שֹׁמֵ֣ר נַפְשׁ֑וֹ בּוֹזֵ֖ה דְרָכָ֣יו יומת׃
שֹׁמֵ֣ר
מִ֭צְוָה
שֹׁמֵ֣ר
נַפְשׁ֑וֹ
בּוֹזֵ֖ה
דְרָכָ֣יו
יומת
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Ὃς φυλάσσει ἐντολὴν, τηρεῖ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχήν· ὁ δὲ καταφρονῶν τῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὁδῶν, ἀπολεῖται.
Ὃς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὅς
- Transliteration
- hos
- Morphology
- relative pronoun, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- who, which
- Part of Speech
- relative pronoun
- Definition
- Relative pronoun who, which, that.
- Occurrences
- 4123
φυλάσσει
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- φυλάσσει
- Transliteration
- phylassei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 14
ἐντολὴν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἐντολὴν
- Transliteration
- entolen
- Morphology
- accusative singular feminine pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 21
τηρεῖ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- τηρεῖ
- Transliteration
- terei
- Morphology
- dative singular or indeclinable form pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 4
τὴν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
ἑαυτοῦ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἑαυτοῦ
- Transliteration
- heautou
- Morphology
- reflexive pronoun, genitive masculine/neuter singular
- Gloss
- of himself, his own
- Part of Speech
- reflexive pronoun
- Definition
- Reflexive pronoun himself, herself, itself, themselves.
- Occurrences
- 462
ψυχήν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ψυχή
- Transliteration
- psyche
- Morphology
- noun, feminine nominative singular
- Gloss
- soul, life
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Soul, life, self, or living being.
- Occurrences
- 809
ὁ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
δὲ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- δέ
- Transliteration
- de
- Morphology
- postpositive conjunction/particle
- Gloss
- but, and, now
- Part of Speech
- conjunction/particle
- Definition
- Postpositive connective conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 4634
καταφρονῶν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- low
- Confidence note
- Rare-form generated LXX morphology pattern. This improves coverage and searchability, but should be treated as low-confidence until reviewed against the verse context.
- Lemma
- καταφρονῶν
- Transliteration
- kataphronon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 2
τῶν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὁ
- Transliteration
- ho
- Morphology
- definite article, nominative masculine singular
- Gloss
- the
- Part of Speech
- article
- Definition
- Greek definite article.
- Strong's
- G3588
- Occurrences
- 80473
ἑαυτοῦ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ἑαυτοῦ
- Transliteration
- heautou
- Morphology
- reflexive pronoun, genitive masculine/neuter singular
- Gloss
- of himself, his own
- Part of Speech
- reflexive pronoun
- Definition
- Reflexive pronoun himself, herself, itself, themselves.
- Occurrences
- 462
ὁδῶν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὁδῶν
- Transliteration
- odon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 20
ἀπολεῖται
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ἀπολεῖται
- Transliteration
- apoleitai
- Morphology
- nominative plural feminine or infinitive/verb form depending on context
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective/verb form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 37
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܕܢܛܪ ܦܘܩܕܢܐ ܡܙܕܗܪ ܒܢܦܫܗ ܘܕܫܐܛ ܐܘܪ̈ܚܬܗ ܢܬܩܛܠ
ܕܢܛܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܢܛܪ
- Transliteration
- dntr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 27
ܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܦܘܩܕܢܐ
- Transliteration
- pwqdn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 62
ܡܙܕܗܪ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܙܕܗܪ
- Transliteration
- mzdhr
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 3
ܒܢܦܫܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܒܢܦܫܗ
- Transliteration
- bnpshh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition b-
- Occurrences
- 12
ܘܕܫܐܛ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܕܫܐܛ
- Transliteration
- wdsh't
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1
ܐܘܪ̈ܚܬܗ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܘܪܚܬܗ
- Transliteration
- 'wrhth
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 55
ܢܬܩܛܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܢܬܩܛܠ
- Transliteration
- ntqtl
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 22
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
דְנָטֵר פּוּקְדָנָא נָטֵר נַפְשֵׁיהּ וּדְמֵשִׁיט אוֹרְחָתֵיהּ יְמוּת׃
דְנָטֵר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נטר
- Transliteration
- dntr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 55
פּוּקְדָנָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- פוקדנא
- Transliteration
- pwqdn'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 6
נָטֵר
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נטר
- Transliteration
- ntr
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 55
נַפְשֵׁיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- נפשיה
- Transliteration
- npshyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 106
וּדְמֵשִׁיט
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- דמשיט
- Transliteration
- wdmshyt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1
אוֹרְחָתֵיהּ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אורחתיה
- Transliteration
- 'wrchtyh
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 33
יְמוּת׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- ימות
- Transliteration
- ymwt
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 58
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Qui custodit mandatum custodit animam suam; qui autem negligit viam suam mortificabitur.
qui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- qui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
custodit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- custodio
- Transliteration
- custodit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 358
mandatum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- mandatum
- Transliteration
- mandatum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 242
custodit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- custodio
- Transliteration
- custodit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 358
animam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- anima
- Transliteration
- animam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 916
suam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suus
- Transliteration
- suam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5783
qui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- qui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
autem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- autem
- Transliteration
- autem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5069
neglegit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- negligo
- Transliteration
- neglegit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 21
vias
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uia
- Transliteration
- vias
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 853
suas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suus
- Transliteration
- suas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5783
mortificabitur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- mortifico
- Transliteration
- mortificabitur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 12
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
Proverbs 13:13
Whoso despiseth the word shall suffer thereby; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.
10 relevance votesLuke 10:28
10 relevance votes1 John 5:3
8 relevance votesLuke 11:28
7 relevance votes1 John 3:22
5 relevance votesProverbs 16:17
The highway of the upright is to depart from evil; he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.
5 relevance votesEcclesiastes 8:5
Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man's heart discerneth time and judgment.
4 relevance votesProverbs 21:23
Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles.
4 relevance votesProverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
4 relevance votesMatthew 16:26
4 relevance votesRevelation 22:14
4 relevance votesProverbs 22:5
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward; he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
3 relevance votes