Psalms 24:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto falsehood, And hath not sworn deceitfully.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נְקִ֥י כַפַּ֗יִם וּֽבַר־לֵ֫בָ֥ב אֲשֶׁ֤ר ׀ לֹא־נָשָׂ֣א לַשָּׁ֣וְא נַפְשִׁ֑י וְלֹ֖א נִשְׁבַּ֣ע לְמִרְמָֽה׃

Transliteration

nĕqî kappayim and bar-lēbāb, who not nāśāʾ to šāwʾ napšî, and not nišbaʿ to mirmâ.

Grammar Details

• *nĕqî*: adjective, masculine singular construct - clean of
• *kappayim*: noun, feminine dual - hands/palms
• וּ: conjunction - and
• *bar*: adjective, masculine singular construct - pure of
• *lēbāb*: noun, masculine singular - heart
• אֲשֶׁר: relative pronoun - who/which/that
• לֹא: negative particle - not
• *nāśāʾ*: verb, Qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he lifted/carried
• לַ: preposition - to/for
• *šāwʾ*: noun, masculine singular - vanity/falsehood
• *napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
• *nišbaʿ*: verb, Niphal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he swore
• לְ: preposition - to/for
• *mirmâ*: noun, feminine singular - deceit/treachery

Word Meanings

• *nĕqî*: clean/innocent/free from guilt
• *kappayim*: hands/palms/power
• *bar*: pure/clean/innocent
• *lēbāb*: heart/mind/inner person
• *nāśāʾ*: lifted/carried/took
• *šāwʾ*: vanity/falsehood/emptiness
• *napšî*: my soul/my life/myself
• *nišbaʿ*: swore/took an oath
• *mirmâ*: deceit/treachery/fraud

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:8 : 8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
• Job 17:9 : 9 Yet shall the righteous hold on his way, And he that hath clean hands shall wax stronger and stronger.
• Ps 51:10 : 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; And renew a right spirit within me.
• Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye doubleminded.
• Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
• Isa 33:15-16 : 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: 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
• Ps 73:1 : 1 A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, [Even] to such as are pure in heart.
• 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all defilement of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
• Ezek 18:6 : 6 and hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbor's wife, neither hath come near to a woman in her impurity,
• Ezek 18:15 : 15 that hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, hath not defiled his neighbor's wife,
• Acts 15:9 : 9 and he made no distinction between {G5037} us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
• Ps 143:8 : 8 Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; For in thee do I trust: Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; For I lift up my soul unto thee.
• Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
• Ps 18:20 : 20 Jehovah hath rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.
• Isa 1:15-16 : 15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you; yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood. 16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.
• Job 9:30 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
• Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
• Jer 5:2 : 2 And though they say, As Jehovah liveth; surely they swear falsely.
• Jer 7:9-9 : 9 Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods that ye have not known, 10 and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered; that ye may do all these abominations?
• Ps 25:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. Unto thee, O Jehovah, do I lift up my soul.
• Prov 20:9 : 9 Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?
• Rev 21:1-4 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more. 2 And I {G2491} saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband. 3 And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [ and be] their God: 4 and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, {G2071} nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• 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.
• Zech 5:3-4 : 3 Then said he unto me, This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land: for every one that stealeth shall be cut off on the one side according to it; and every one that sweareth shall be cut off on the other side according to it. 4 I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.
• Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner [from his right], and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• 1 Tim 1:10 : 10 for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;
• Acts 14:15 : 15 and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is: