Psalms 119:29

American Standard Version (1901)

Remove from me the way of falsehood; And grant me thy law graciously.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דֶּֽרֶךְ־שֶׁ֭קֶר הָסֵ֣ר מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ חָנֵּֽנִי׃

Transliteration

dereḵ-šeqer hāsēr from-me and-tôrātəḵā ḥānnēnî

Grammar Details

• *dereḵ*-*šeqer*: masculine singular construct + masculine singular noun - way of falsehood
• *hāsēr*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - remove
• from-me: preposition *min* + 1st person singular suffix - from me
• and-*tôrātəḵā*: conjunction *wə* + feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your law
• *ḥānnēnî*: Qal imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - be gracious to me

Word Meanings

• *dereḵ*: way/path/journey/manner
• *šeqer*: falsehood/lie/deception/disappointment
• *hāsēr*: remove/take away/turn aside
• *tôrātəḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction
• *ḥānnēnî*: be gracious to me/show favor to me/have mercy on me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:5 : 5 Oh that my ways were established To observe thy statutes!
• Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.
• Ps 119:104 : 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: Therefore I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I esteem all [thy] precepts concerning all [things] to be right; [And] I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and abhor falsehood; [But] thy law do I love.
• Ps 141:3-4 : 3 Set a watch, O Jehovah, before my mouth; Keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, To practise deeds of wickedness With men that work iniquity: And let me not eat of their dainties.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me falsehood and lies; Give me neither poverty nor riches; Feed me with the food that is needful for me:
• Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, [even] vanity and things wherein there is no profit.
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people: 34 and they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more.
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that regard lying vanities Forsake their own mercy.
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; 23 and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth. 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
• Heb 8:10-11 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
• 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 John 2:4 : 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;
• Rev 22:15 : 15 Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.