Psalms 119:84

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

How many are the days of thy servant? When wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּמָּ֥ה יְמֵֽי־עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ מָתַ֬י תַּעֲשֶׂ֖ה בְרֹדְפַ֣י מִשְׁפָּֽט׃

Transliteration

How many kammâ are the days yəmê of your servant ʿaḇdêḵā? When māṯay will you execute taʿăśê against my persecutors ḇərōḏp̄ay judgment mišpāṭ?

Grammar Details

*kammâ*: interrogative adverb - how many
*yəmê*: noun masculine plural construct - days of
*ʿaḇdêḵā*: noun masculine singular construct + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servant
*māṯay*: interrogative adverb - when
*taʿăśê*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will execute/do
*ḇərōḏp̄ay*: preposition + qal participle masculine plural construct + 1st person singular suffix - against my persecutors
*mišpāṭ*: noun masculine singular - judgment

Word Meanings

*kammâ*: how many/how much/how long
*yəmê*: days/lifetime
*ʿaḇdêḵā*: your servant/your slave
*māṯay*: when/at what time
*taʿăśê*: will you execute/will you perform/will you carry out
*rōḏp̄ay*: my persecutors/those pursuing me/my enemies
*mišpāṭ*: judgment/justice/legal decision

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 7:6-8 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good. 8 The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not be.
Ps 7:6 : 6 Arise, O Jehovah, in thine anger; Lift up thyself against the rage of mine adversaries, And awake for me; thou hast commanded judgment.
Ps 39:4-5 : 4 Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am. 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Ps 89:47-48 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men! 48 What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {H5542}
Ps 90:12 : 12 So teach us to number our days, That we may get us a heart of wisdom.
Rev 6:10-11 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled [their course].

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