Psalms 119:37

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, And quicken me in thy ways.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַעֲבֵ֣ר עֵ֭ינַי מֵרְא֣וֹת שָׁ֑וְא בִּדְרָכֶ֥ךָ חַיֵּֽנִי׃

Transliteration

haʿăḇēr ʿênay from-rǝʾôṯ šāwǝʾ in-ḏǝrāḵeḵā ḥayyēnî

Grammar Details

*haʿăḇēr*: hiphil imperative masculine singular - cause to pass/turn away
*ʿênay*: feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - my eyes
*mērǝʾôṯ*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - from seeing
*šāwǝʾ*: masculine singular noun - emptiness/vanity/falsehood
*ḏǝrāḵeḵā*: masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your way
*ḥayyēnî*: piel imperative + 1st person singular suffix - give me life/revive me

Word Meanings

*haʿăḇēr*: turn away/remove/avert
*šāwǝʾ*: emptiness/vanity/falsehood/worthlessness
*ḥayyēnî*: give me life/preserve me alive/revive me

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from taking a bribe, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from looking upon evil:
Num 15:39 : 39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
Ps 119:25 : 25 DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: Quicken thou me according to thy word.
Prov 4:25 : 25 Let thine eyes look right on, And let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
Prov 23:5 : 5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: Quicken me in thy righteousness.
2 Sam 11:2 : 2 And it came to pass at eventide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.
Matt 5:28 : 28 but I say unto you, that every one that looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vain glory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Job 31:1 : 1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; How then should I look upon a virgin?
Josh 7:21 : 21 when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
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.

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