Psalms 51:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּֽי־פְ֭שָׁעַי אֲנִ֣י אֵדָ֑ע וְחַטָּאתִ֖י נֶגְדִּ֣י תָמִֽיד׃

Transliteration

For-pəšāʿay ʾănî ʾēdāʿ and-ḥaṭṭāʾtî negdî tāmîd

Grammar Details

*pəšāʿay*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my transgressions
*ʾănî*: 1st person singular personal pronoun - I
*ʾēdāʿ*: Qal imperfect 1st person singular - I know
*ḥaṭṭāʾtî*: feminine singular noun with 1st person singular suffix - my sin
*negdî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - before me/opposite me
*tāmîd*: adverb - continually/always

Word Meanings

*pəšāʿay*: my transgressions/rebellions/crimes
*ʾēdāʿ*: I know/recognize/acknowledge
*ḥaṭṭāʾtî*: my sin/offense/failure
*negdî*: before me/opposite me/in front of me
*tāmîd*: continually/always/constantly

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Rom 5:12 : 12 Therefore, as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin; and so death passed unto all men, for that all sinned: —
Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
John 3:6 : 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
Gen 8:21 : 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
Gen 5:3 : 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat [a son] in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

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