Psalms 119:176

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; Seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תָּעִ֗יתִי כְּשֶׂ֣ה אֹ֭בֵד בַּקֵּ֣שׁ עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י מִ֝צְוֺתֶיךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי

Transliteration

Tāʿîtî kəśeh ʾōḇēḏ baqqēš ʿaḇdekā kî miṣwōteḵā lōʾ šāḵāḥtî

Grammar Details

• *tāʿîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have wandered/gone astray
• *kə-*: preposition - like/as
• *śeh*: masculine singular noun - sheep/lamb
• *ʾōḇēḏ*: qal participle masculine singular - being lost/perishing
• *baqqēš*: piel imperative masculine singular - seek
• *ʿaḇdekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servant
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *miṣwōteḵā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *šāḵāḥtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have forgotten

Word Meanings

• *tāʿîtî*: I have wandered/gone astray/been lost
• *śeh*: sheep/lamb
• *ʾōḇēḏ*: perishing/lost/destroyed/straying
• *baqqēš*: seek/search for/look for
• *ʿaḇdekā*: your servant/slave
• *miṣwōteḵā*: your commandments/precepts/ordinances
• *šāḵāḥtî*: I have forgotten/neglected/ignored

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:61 : 61 The cords of the wicked have wrapped me round; [But] I have not forgotten thy law.
• Song 1:4 : 4 Draw me; we will run after thee: The king hath brought me into his chambers; We will be glad and rejoice in thee; We will make mention of thy love more than of wine: Rightly do they love thee.
• Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and Jehovah hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek [after them].
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• Matt 15:24 : 24 But he answered and said, I was not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Luke 15:4-7 : 4 What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh {G1519} home, he calleth together his friends and his neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7 I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, [more] than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who {G2192} need no repentance.
• John 10:16 : 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and they shall become one flock, one shepherd.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 for it is God who worketh in you both to will and to work, for his good pleasure.
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were going astray like sheep; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 but now that ye have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how turn ye back again to the weak and beggarly rudiments, whereunto ye desire to be in bondage over again?
• Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.
• Matt 18:12-13 : 12 How think you? if any man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not leave the ninety and nine, and go unto the mountains, and seek that which goes astray? 13 And if so be that he find it, truly I say unto you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety and nine which have not gone astray.
• Matt 10:6 : 6 but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but the fat and the strong I will destroy; I will feed them in justice.
• Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.
• Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou hast quickened me.