Psalms 19:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקְצֵ֤ה הַשָּׁמַ֨יִם ׀ מֽוֹצָא֗וֹ וּתְקוּפָת֥וֹ עַל־קְצוֹתָ֑ם וְאֵ֥ין נִ֝סְתָּ֗ר מֵֽחַמָּתוֹ׃

Transliteration

From-qəṣēh the-šāmayim môṣāʾô and-təqûpātô upon-qəṣôtām and-ʾēyn nistār from-ḥammātô

Grammar Details

• *qəṣēh*: noun, masculine, singular, construct - end of
• *šāmayim*: noun, masculine, plural, absolute with definite article - heavens
• *môṣāʾô*: noun, masculine, singular with 3ms suffix - his going forth/rising
• *təqûpātô*: noun, feminine, singular with 3ms suffix - his circuit/course
• *qəṣôtām*: noun, masculine, plural, construct with 3mp suffix - their ends
• *ʾēyn*: particle of negation - there is not/no
• *nistār*: verb, niphal participle, masculine, singular - hidden/concealed
• *ḥammātô*: noun, feminine, singular with 3ms suffix - his heat

Word Meanings

• *qəṣēh*: end/extremity/edge
• *šāmayim*: heavens/sky
• *môṣāʾô*: his going forth/his rising/his departure point
• *təqûpātô*: his circuit/revolution/course/cycle
• *qəṣôtām*: their ends/their extremities
• *ʾēyn*: there is not/nothing
• *nistār*: hidden/concealed/sheltered
• *ḥammātô*: his heat/his radiance/his warmth

Referenced Verses

• Ps 111:7 : 7 The works of his hands are faith and righteousness; all his laws are unchanging.
• Ps 119:130 : 130 The opening of your words gives light; it gives good sense to the simple.
• Ps 23:3 : 3 He gives new life to my soul: he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.
• Ps 119:105 : 105 <NUN> Your word is a light for my feet, ever shining on my way.
• Prov 1:4 : 4 To make the simple-minded sharp, and to give the young man knowledge, and serious purpose:
• Ps 93:5 : 5 Your witness is most certain; it is right for your house to be holy, O Lord, for ever.
• Isa 8:20 : 20 Then say to them, Put your faith in the teaching and the witness. ... If they do not say such things. ... For him there is no dawn. ...
• Prov 1:22-23 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge? 23 Be turned again by my sharp words: see, I will send the flow of my spirit on you, and make my words clear to you.
• Col 3:16 : 16 Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
• 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every holy Writing which comes from God is of profit for teaching, for training, for guiding, for education in righteousness: 17 So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.
• Deut 32:4 : 4 He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.
• Deut 6:6-9 : 6 Keep these words, which I say to you this day, deep in your hearts; 7 Teaching them to your children with all care, talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up. 8 Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow; 9 Have them lettered on the pillars of your houses and over the doors of your towns.
• Job 23:12 : 12 I have never gone against the orders of his lips; the words of his mouth have been stored up in my heart.
• Ps 119:111 : 111 I have taken your unchanging word as an eternal heritage; for it is the joy of my heart.
• Ps 119:127-128 : 127 For this reason I have greater love far your teachings than for gold, even for shining gold. 128 Because of it I keep straight in all things by your orders; and I am a hater of every false way.
• Ps 119:72 : 72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.
• Jas 1:21-25 : 21 For this reason, putting away all dirty behaviour and the overweight of evil, take into your souls without pride the word which, being planted there, is able to give you salvation. 22 But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas. 23 Because if any man is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a glass; 24 For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like. 25 But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.
• Rom 15:4 : 4 Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;
• 2 Tim 2:19 : 19 But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
• 1 John 5:9-9 : 9 If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son. 10 He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son. 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good and true thing is given to us from heaven, coming from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or any shade made by turning.
• Isa 8:16 : 16 Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.
• Ps 119:96-99 : 96 I have seen that nothing on earth is complete; but your teaching is very wide. 97 <MEM> O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day. 98 Your teaching has made me wiser than my haters: for it is mine for ever. 99 I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word. 100 I have more wisdom than the old, because I have kept your orders.
• Ps 119:14 : 14 I have taken as much delight in the way of your unchanging word, as in all wealth.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Your unchanging word is my delight, and the guide of my footsteps.
• Ps 18:30 : 30 As for God, his way is completely good; the word of the Lord is tested; he is a breastplate for all those who put their faith in him.
• Josh 1:8 : 8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in your thoughts day and night, so that you may keep with care everything in it; then a blessing will be on all your way, and you will do well.
• 2 Sam 23:5 : 5 For is not my house so with God? For he has made with me an eternal agreement, ordered in all things and certain: as for all my salvation and all my desire, will he not give it increase?
• Acts 10:43 : 43 To him all the prophets give witness, that through his name everyone who has faith in him will have forgiveness of sins.
• Deut 17:18-20 : 18 And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care: 19 And it is to be with him for his reading all the days of his life, so that he may be trained in the fear of the Lord his God to keep and do all the words of this teaching and these laws: 20 So that his heart may not be lifted up over his countrymen, and he may not be turned away from the orders, to one side or the other: but that his life and the lives of his children may be long in his kingdom in Israel.
• Ps 78:1-7 : 1 <Maschil. Of Asaph.> Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth. 2 Opening my mouth I will give out a story, even the dark sayings of old times; 3 Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers. 4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done. 5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children; 6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children; 7 So that they might put their hope in God, and not let God's works go out of their minds, but keep his laws;
• Ps 119:9 : 9 <BETH> How may a young man make his way clean? by guiding it after your word.
• Ps 119:152 : 152 I have long had knowledge that your unchanging word is for ever.
• John 5:39 : 39 You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
• Rev 19:10 : 10 And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
• John 3:32-33 : 32 He gives witness of what he has seen and of what has come to his ears; and no man takes his witness as true. 33 He who so takes his witness has made clear his faith that God is true.
• Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.