Psalms 103:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

To such as keep his covenant, And to those that remember his precepts to do them.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְשֹׁמְרֵ֥י בְרִית֑וֹ וּלְזֹכְרֵ֥י פִ֝קֻּדָ֗יו לַעֲשׂוֹתָֽם׃

Transliteration

To-šōmrê bərîtô û-to-zōkrê piqqūdāyw laʿăśôtām

Grammar Details

• *šōmrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to keepers of
• *bərîtô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his covenant
• *û*: conjunction - and
• *zōkrê*: qal participle masculine plural construct with prefixed preposition *lə* - to rememberers of
• *piqqūdāyw*: masculine plural noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his precepts
• *laʿăśôtām*: qal infinitive construct with prefixed preposition *lə* and 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to do them

Word Meanings

• *šōmrê*: keepers/observers/guardians
• *bərîtô*: his covenant/agreement/alliance
• *zōkrê*: rememberers/those who recall/those mindful of
• *piqqūdāyw*: his precepts/commandments/orders
• *laʿăśôtām*: to do them/to perform them/to fulfill them

Referenced Verses

• Deut 7:9 : 9 Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,
• Ps 25:10 : 10 All the paths of Jehovah are lovingkindness and truth Unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
• Acts 24:16 : 16 {G1161} {G1722} Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
• 2 Chr 34:31 : 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that were written in this book.
• Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which hath been enacted upon better promises. 7 For if that first [covenant] had been faultless, then would no {G302} place have been sought for a second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 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 {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people: 11 And they shall not {G3361} 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. 12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no {G3361} more. 13 In that he saith, A new [covenant] he hath made the first old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
• Ps 119:9-9 : 9 BETH. Wherewith shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed [thereto] according to thy word. 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.
• Ps 132:12 : 12 If thy children will keep my covenant And my testimony that I shall teach them, Their children also shall sit upon thy throne for evermore.
• Prov 3:1 : 1 My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:
• Matt 28:20 : 20 teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Gen 17:9-9 : 9 And God said unto Abraham, And as for thee, thou shalt keep my covenant, thou, and thy seed after thee throughout their generations. 10 This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee: every male among you shall be circumcised.
• Exod 19:5 : 5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be mine own possession from among all peoples: for all the earth is mine:
• Exod 24:8 : 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Jehovah hath made with you concerning all these words.
• Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image in the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart; 7 and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. 8 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes. 9 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thy house, and upon thy gates.
• 1 Thess 4:1 : 1 Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, — that ye abound more and more.