Psalms 119:57

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

HHETH. Jehovah is my portion: I have said that I would observe thy words.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חֶלְקִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אָמַ֗רְתִּי לִשְׁמֹ֥ר דְּבָרֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ḥelqî YHWH ʾāmartî to-šǝmōr dǝḇāreykā

Grammar Details

• *ḥelqî*: masculine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my portion
• *YHWH*: proper name - Yahweh/LORD
• *ʾāmartî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have said
• *lišǝmōr*: preposition + qal infinitive construct - to keep
• *dǝḇāreykā*: masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your words

Word Meanings

• *ḥelqî*: my portion/share/inheritance
• *ʾāmartî*: I have said/promised/declared
• *šǝmōr*: to keep/observe/guard

Referenced Verses

• Ps 16:5 : 5 Jehovah is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: Thou maintainest my lot.
• Lam 3:24 : 24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
• Ps 66:14 : 14 Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spake, when I was in distress.
• Ps 73:26 : 26 My flesh and my heart faileth; [But] God is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe thy righteous ordinances.
• Ps 119:115 : 115 Depart from me, ye evil-doers, That I may keep the commandments of my God.
• Ps 142:5 : 5 I cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
• Jer 10:16 : 16 The portion of Jacob is not like these; for he is the former of all things; and Israel is the tribe of his inheritance: Jehovah of hosts is his name.
• Deut 26:17-18 : 17 Thou hast avouched Jehovah this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and hearken unto his voice: 18 and Jehovah hath avouched thee this day to be a people for his own possession, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
• Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
• Josh 24:18 : 18 and Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve Jehovah; for he is our God.
• Josh 24:21 : 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve Jehovah.
• Josh 24:24-27 : 24 And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and unto his voice will we hearken. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
• Neh 10:29-39 : 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord, and his ordinances and his statutes; 30 and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; 31 and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. 32 Also we made ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; 33 for the showbread, and for the continual meal - offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God. 34 And we cast lots, the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood - offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers' houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn upon the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law; 35 and to bring the first-fruits of our ground, and the first-fruits of all fruit of all manner of trees, year by year, unto the house of Jehovah; 36 also the first-born of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the house of our God; 37 and that we should bring the first-fruits of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of all manner of trees, the new wine and the oil, unto the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage. 38 And the priest the son of Aaron shall be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure - house. 39 For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the grain, of the new wine, and of the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.