Psalms 15:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And speaketh truth in his heart;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים וּפֹעֵ֥ל צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֥ר אֱ֝מֶ֗ת בִּלְבָֽבוֹ׃

Transliteration

Hōlēk tāmîm and-pōʿēl ṣedeq and-dōbēr ʾĕmet in-lĕbābô.

Grammar Details

• *Hōlēk*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - walking/going
• *tāmîm*: adjective, masculine singular - blameless/complete/perfect
• *pōʿēl*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - doing/working
• *ṣedeq*: noun, masculine singular - righteousness/justice
• *dōbēr*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - speaking
• *ʾĕmet*: noun, feminine singular - truth/faithfulness
• *lĕbābô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his heart

Word Meanings

• *Hōlēk tāmîm*: walks blamelessly/walks with integrity/walks perfectly
• *pōʿēl ṣedeq*: works righteousness/does justice/practices what is right
• *dōbēr ʾĕmet*: speaks truth/speaks honestly
• *lĕbābô*: his heart/his mind/his inner being

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.
• Col 3:9 : 9 lie not one to another; seeing that ye have put off the old man with his doings,
• Ps 34:12-13 : 12 What man is he that desireth life, And loveth [many] days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking guile.
• Prov 28:18 : 18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be delivered; But he that is perverse in [his] ways shall fall at once.
• Mic 2:7 : 7 Shall it be said, O house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of Jehovah straitened? are these his doings? Do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
• Prov 2:7-8 : 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to them that walk in integrity; 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
• Heb 11:33 : 33 who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
• 1 John 2:6 : 6 he that saith he abideth in him ought himself also to walk even as he walked.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Rom 2:10 : 10 but glory and honor and peace to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Greek:
• 1 John 3:7 : 7 [ My] little children, let no man lead you astray: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous:
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.
• Ps 24:4 : 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.
• 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:
• Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.
• Zech 8:16-17 : 16 These are the things that ye shall do: speak ye every man the truth with his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates; 17 and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith Jehovah.
• Ps 84:11 : 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Cephas before [them] all, If thou, being a Jew, livest as do the Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, how compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
• Acts 10:35 : 35 but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is acceptable to him.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part [shall be] in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
• Rev 22:14-15 : 14 Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right [to come] to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. 15 {G1161} Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.