Psalms 17:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou hast proved my heart; Thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּ֘חַ֤נְתָּ לִבִּ֨י ׀ פָּ֘קַ֤דְתָּ לַּ֗יְלָה צְרַפְתַּ֥נִי בַל־תִּמְצָ֑א זַ֝מֹּתִ֗י בַּל־יַעֲבָר־פִּֽי׃

Transliteration

Bāḥantā libbî pāqadtā laylāh ṣǝraftanî bal-timṣā' zammōtî bal-ya'ăbār-pî

Grammar Details

• *Bāḥantā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have examined/tested
• *libbî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my heart
• *pāqadtā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you have visited/inspected
• *laylāh*: noun, masculine singular - night
• *ṣǝraftanî*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - you have refined/tested me
• *bal-timṣā'*: negative particle + verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will not find
• *zammōtî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have purposed/planned/thought
• *bal-ya'ăbār-pî*: negative particle + verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular + noun + 1st person singular suffix - will not transgress my mouth

Word Meanings

• *pāqadtā*: you have visited/inspected/attended to
• *ṣǝraftanî*: you have refined/tested/tried me (as metal)
• *zammōtî*: I have purposed/devised/planned/thought

Referenced Verses

• Job 23:10 : 10 But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
• Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind.
• Ps 39:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician, for Jeduthun. A Psalm of David. I said, I will take heed to my ways, That I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle, While the wicked is before me.
• Ps 66:10 : 10 For thou, O God, hast proved us: Thou hast tried us, as silver is tried.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
• 1 Pet 1:7 : 7 that the proof of your faith, [being] more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
• Ps 16:7 : 7 I will bless Jehovah, who hath given me counsel; Yea, my heart instructeth me in the night seasons.
• Mal 3:2 : 2 But who can abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fuller's soap:
• Acts 11:23 : 23 who, when he was come, and had seen the grace of God, was glad; and he exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord:
• Ps 139:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and known [me].
• Prov 13:3 : 3 He that guardeth his mouth keepeth his life; [But] he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
• Jer 50:20 : 20 In those days, and in that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.
• Hos 7:6 : 6 For they have made ready their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
• Mic 2:1 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Ps 119:106 : 106 I have sworn, and have confirmed it, That I will observe thy righteous ordinances.
• Ps 44:17-21 : 17 All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 18 Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way, 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
• Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
• Ps 7:4 : 4 If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (Yea, I have delivered him that without cause was mine adversary;)
• Ps 11:5 : 5 Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
• 1 Sam 24:10 : 10 Behold, this day thine eyes have seen how that Jehovah had delivered thee to-day into my hand in the cave: and some bade me kill thee; but [mine eye] spared thee; and I said, I will not put forth my hand against my lord; for he is Jehovah's anointed.
• 1 Sam 24:12 : 12 Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.
• 1 Sam 26:11 : 11 Jehovah forbid that I should put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed: but now take, I pray thee, the spear that is at his head, and the cruse of water, and let us go.
• 1 Sam 26:23 : 23 And Jehovah will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as Jehovah delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against Jehovah's anointed.
• Acts 16:9 : 9 And a vision appeared to Paul in the night: There was a man of Macedonia standing, beseeching him, and saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us.
• Acts 18:9-9 : 9 And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace: 10 for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.
• 1 Cor 4:4 : 4 For I know nothing against myself; yet am I not hereby {G1722} justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glorifying is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
• Jas 3:2 : 2 For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.