Psalms 119:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold Wondrous things out of thy law.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גַּל־עֵינַ֥י וְאַבִּ֑יטָה נִ֝פְלָא֗וֹת מִתּוֹרָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

gal-ʿênay and-ʾabbîṭâ nip̄lāʾôt from-tôrāteḵā

Grammar Details

• *gal*-*ʿênay*: Piel imperative masculine singular + feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - uncover my eyes
• and-*ʾabbîṭâ*: conjunction *wə* + Hiphil cohortative 1st person singular - and I will look at
• *nip̄lāʾôt*: Niphal participle feminine plural - wonderful things
• from-*tôrāteḵā*: preposition *min* + feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from your law

Word Meanings

• *gal*: uncover/open/reveal
• *ʿênay*: my eyes/sight/perception
• *ʾabbîṭâ*: I will look at/see/behold/observe
• *nip̄lāʾôt*: wonderful things/marvelous things/miracles
• *tôrāteḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction

Referenced Verses

• Eph 1:17-18 : 17 that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him; 18 having the eyes of your heart enlightened, that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, {G2532} what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
• Isa 29:18 : 18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
• Isa 32:3 : 3 And the eyes of them that see shall not be dim, and the ears of them that hear shall hearken.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.
• 2 Cor 3:13-18 : 13 and [are] not as Moses, [who] put a veil upon his face, that the children of Israel should not look stedfastly on the end of that which was passing away: 14 but their minds were hardened: for until this very day at the reading of the old covenant the same veil remaineth, it not being revealed to them that it is done away in Christ. 15 But unto this day, whensoever Moses is read, a veil lieth upon their heart. 16 But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away. 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, [there] is liberty. 18 But we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit.
• 2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
• Ps 119:96 : 96 I have seen an end of all perfection; [But] thy commandment is exceeding broad.
• Isa 29:10-12 : 10 For Jehovah hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, hath he covered. 11 And all vision is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot, for it is sealed: 12 and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.
• Isa 35:5 : 5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
• Hos 8:12 : 12 I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.
• Matt 13:13 : 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jonah: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
• John 9:39 : 39 And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.
• Heb 8:5 : 5 who serve [that which is] a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned [of God] when he is about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern that was showed thee in the mount.
• Heb 10:1 : 1 For the law having a shadow of the good [things] to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, {G1519} which they offer continually, make perfect them that draw nigh.
• Rev 3:18 : 18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold refined by fire, that thou mayest become rich; and white garments, that thou mayest clothe thyself, and [that] the shame of thy nakedness be not made manifest; and eyesalve to anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.