Psalms 119:109

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My soul is continually in my hand; Yet do I not forget thy law.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נַפְשִׁ֣י בְכַפִּ֣י תָמִ֑יד וְ֝תֽוֹרָתְךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי׃

Transliteration

napšî in-kappî tāmîd and-tôrātəkā not šākāḥtî

Grammar Details

*napšî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*kappî*: feminine dual noun with 1st person singular suffix - my palm/hand
*tāmîd*: adverb - continually/always
*tôrātəkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law
*šākāḥtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have forgotten
*bə-*: preposition - in/with
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not

Word Meanings

*napšî*: my soul/life/self
*kappî*: my palm/hand
*tāmîd*: continually/always/perpetually
*tôrātəkā*: your law/instruction/teaching
*šākāḥtî*: I have forgotten

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 13:14 : 14 Wherefore should I take my flesh in my teeth, And put my life in my hand?
Judg 12:3 : 3 And when I saw that ye saved me not, I put my life in my hand, and passed over against the children of Ammon, and Jehovah delivered them into my hand: wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day, to fight against me?
1 Sam 19:5 : 5 for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?
1 Sam 20:3 : 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Ps 119:117 : 117 Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, And shall have respect unto thy statutes continually.
Ps 119:152 : 152 Of old have I known from thy testimonies, That thou hast founded them for ever.
Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
1 Cor 15:31 : 31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die {G2596} daily.
2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 119:61
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61The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I have not forgotten thy law.
Ps 119:153
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153RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me; For I do not forget thy law.
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Ps 119:110
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Ps 119:19-20
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Ps 119:92-93
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92Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
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Ps 119:167-168
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167My soul hath observed thy testimonies; And I love them exceedingly.
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Ps 119:55-56
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Ps 119:173-176
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173Let thy hand be ready to help me; For I have chosen thy precepts.
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Ps 119:8
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Ps 119:139
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Ps 119:16
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16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 119:43-44
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43And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth; For I have hoped in thine ordinances.
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Ps 119:129
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129PE. Thy testimonies are wonderful; Therefore doth my soul keep them.
Ps 119:10-11
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10With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.
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Ps 73:23
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Ps 119:143
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143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; [Yet] thy commandments are my delight.
Ps 119:117
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117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe, And shall have respect unto thy statutes continually.
Ps 137:5
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Ps 119:87
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Ps 119:108
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Ps 31:15
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15My times are in thy hand: Deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me.
Lam 3:20
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20My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Ps 119:159
71%
159Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.
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Ps 119:53
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Ps 119:83
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Ps 119:81
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Ps 119:34
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34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; Yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Ps 141:8
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Ps 16:8
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Ps 119:106
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106I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe thy righteous ordinances.