Psalms 119:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me according to thy word.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דָּֽבְקָ֣ה לֶעָפָ֣ר נַפְשִׁ֑י חַ֝יֵּ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

dāḇəqâ to-ʿāp̄ār nap̄šî ḥayyēnî according-to-diḇāreḵā

Grammar Details

*dāḇəqâ*: Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular - it cleaves/clings
to-*ʿāp̄ār*: preposition *lə* + masculine singular noun - to dust
*nap̄šî*: feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*ḥayyēnî*: Piel imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - give me life
according-to-*diḇāreḵā*: preposition *kə* + masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - according to your word

Word Meanings

*dāḇəqâ*: cleaves/clings/adheres/sticks
*ʿāp̄ār*: dust/powder/earth/ashes
*nap̄šî*: my soul/self/life/being/desire
*ḥayyēnî*: give me life/revive me/preserve me
*diḇāreḵā*: your word/speech/matter/command

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:25 : 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.
Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget thy precepts; For with them thou hast quickened me.
Ps 119:159 : 159 Consider how I love thy precepts: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thy lovingkindness.
Ps 143:11 : 11 Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name's sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
Ps 119:149 : 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according to thine ordinances.
Ps 119:156 : 156 Great are thy tender mercies, O Jehovah: Quicken me according to thine ordinances.
Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.
Col 3:2 : 2 Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.
Ps 119:107 : 107 I am afflicted very much: Quicken me, O Jehovah, according unto thy word.
Ps 119:88 : 88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; So shall I observe the testimony of thy mouth.
Ps 71:20 : 20 Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Ps 80:18 : 18 So shall we not go back from thee: Quicken thou us, and we will call upon thy name.
Deut 30:6 : 6 And Jehovah thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For thou, O Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. 28 And now, O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth, and thou hast promised this good thing unto thy servant: 29 now therefore let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee; for thou, O Lord Jehovah, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.
Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art a stumbling-block unto me: for thou mindest not the things of God, but the things of men.
Rom 7:22-24 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Rom 8:2-3 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Phil 3:19 : 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.

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