Psalms 18:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִגְמְלֵ֣נִי יְהוָ֣ה כְּצִדְקִ֑י כְּבֹ֥ר יָ֝דַ֗י יָשִׁ֥יב לִֽי׃

Transliteration

yigmeleni YHWH according to tsidqi according to bor yaday yashiv to me.

Grammar Details

*yigmeleni*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - he will reward me
*YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
*tsidqi*: masculine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my righteousness
*bor*: masculine singular construct - cleanness of
*yaday*: feminine dual noun with 1st person singular suffix - my hands
*yashiv*: hifil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will return/restore

Word Meanings

*yigmeleni*: he will reward me/he will recompense me/he will deal with me
*tsidqi*: my righteousness/my justice/my righteous deeds
*bor*: cleanness of/purity of/cleanliness of
*yashiv*: he will return/he will restore/he will repay

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:102 : 102 I have not turned aside from thine ordinances; For thou hast taught me.
Prov 8:32 : 32 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
Acts 24:16 : 16 {G1161} {G1722} Herein I also exercise myself to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.
1 Thess 2:10 : 10 Ye are witnesses, and God [also], how holily and righteously and unblameably we behaved ourselves toward you that believe:
1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.
1 Sam 15:11 : 11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is turned back from following me, and hath not performed my commandments. And Samuel was wroth; and he cried unto Jehovah all night.
2 Chr 34:33 : 33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.
Ps 17:4 : 4 As for the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept me from the ways of the violent.
Ps 26:1 : 1 [ A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
Ps 119:10-11 : 10 With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments. 11 Thy word have I laid up in my heart, That I might not sin against thee.

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21Jehovah rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
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Job 23:11-12
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1[ A Psalm of David.] Judge me, O Jehovah, for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in Jehovah without wavering.
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