Psalms 119:19

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

גֵּ֣ר אָנֹכִ֣י בָאָ֑רֶץ אַל־תַּסְתֵּ֥ר מִ֝מֶּ֗נִּי מִצְוֺתֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

gēr ʾānōḵî in-ʾāreṣ not-tastēr from-me miṣwōtêḵā

Grammar Details

• *gēr*: masculine singular noun - sojourner
• *ʾānōḵî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• in-*ʾāreṣ*: preposition *bə* + feminine singular noun + definite article - in the land/earth
• not-*tastēr*: negative particle + Hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - do not hide
• from-me *miṣwōtêḵā*: preposition *min* + 1st person singular suffix + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - from me your commandments

Word Meanings

• *gēr*: sojourner/stranger/foreigner/resident alien
• *ʾānōḵî*: I/myself
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/ground/territory
• *tastēr*: hide/conceal/cover
• *miṣwōtêḵā*: your commandments/precepts/orders

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
• Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.
• Isa 63:17 : 17 O Jehovah, why dost thou make us to err from thy ways, and hardenest our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
• 2 Cor 5:6 : 6 Being therefore always of good courage, and knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord
• Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
• Heb 11:13-16 : 13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. 14 For they that say such things make it manifest that they are seeking after a country of their own. 15 And if indeed they had been mindful of that [country] from which they went out, they would have had {G302} opportunity to return. 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
• 1 Pet 2:11 : 11 Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Luke 9:45 : 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
• Luke 24:45 : 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
• Ps 119:10 : 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.
• Job 39:17 : 17 Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.