Psalms 119:99

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִכָּל־מְלַמְּדַ֥י הִשְׂכַּ֑לְתִּי כִּ֥י עֵ֝דְוֺתֶ֗יךָ שִׂ֣יחָה לִֽֿי׃

Transliteration

From all-məlammədāy hiśkaltî for ʿēdəwōtêkā śîḥâ to me

Grammar Details

• *məlammədāy*: masculine plural construct with 1st person suffix - my teachers
• *hiśkaltî*: hiphil perfect 1st person singular - I have gained insight/understanding
• *ʿēdəwōtêkā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your testimonies
• *śîḥâ*: feminine singular noun - meditation/conversation/contemplation
• *mi-*: preposition - from/more than
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because

Word Meanings

• *məlammədāy*: my teachers/instructors
• *hiśkaltî*: I have become wise/I have gained understanding/I have acted wisely
• *ʿēdəwōtêkā*: your testimonies/your decrees/your covenant stipulations
• *śîḥâ*: meditation/conversation/contemplation/musing

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  I have more understanding than all my teachers, for Your testimonies are my meditation.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  I haue more vnderstondinge then all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my studye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  I haue had more vnderstading then all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I am able to geue better instruction then all they that were my teachers: for thy testimonies are my study.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies [are] my meditation.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers, For your testimonies are my meditation.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies `are' my meditation.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers; For thy testimonies are my meditation.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  I have more knowledge than all my teachers, because I give thought to your unchanging word.

• World English Bible (2000)

  I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I have more insight than all my teachers, for I meditate on your rules.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 4:6-8 : 6 You must keep and do them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations, who will hear about all these statutes and say, 'Indeed, this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' 7 For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God is to us whenever we call on Him? 8 And what great nation has righteous statutes and judgments like this entire law that I am setting before you today?
• 2 Sam 15:24-26 : 24 Behold, Zadok was there too, and with him were all the Levites carrying the Ark of the Covenant of God. They set down the Ark of God, and Abiathar went up until all the people had finished crossing out of the city. 25 Then the king said to Zadok, 'Take the Ark of God back to the city. If I find favor in the LORD’s eyes, He will bring me back and let me see it and its dwelling place again.' 26 'But if He says, “I have no delight in you,” here I am—let Him do to me whatever seems good to Him.'
• 1 Chr 15:11-13 : 11 David summoned Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, and the Levites: Uriel, Asaiah, Joel, Shemaiah, Eliel, and Amminadab. 12 He said to them, "You are the heads of the Levitical families. Consecrate yourselves, you and your relatives, so that you may bring up the ark of the LORD, the God of Israel, to the place I prepared for it. 13 For because you did not carry it the first time, the LORD our God broke out against us, since we did not seek Him according to the proper procedure."
• 2 Chr 29:15-36 : 15 They gathered their fellow Levites, consecrated themselves, and went in as the king commanded, in accordance with the words of the LORD, to purify the house of the LORD. 16 The priests entered the inner part of the house of the LORD to cleanse it. They brought out all the unclean things they found in the temple of the LORD and carried them to the courtyard of the house of the LORD. The Levites then took them and carried them out to the Kidron Valley. 17 They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and on the eighth day of the month, they reached the vestibule of the LORD. For eight days, they consecrated the house of the LORD, and on the sixteenth day of the first month, they completed their work. 18 Then they went to King Hezekiah and said, 'We have purified the entire house of the LORD, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for the bread of the Presence with all its utensils.' 19 Moreover, all the utensils that King Ahaz discarded during his reign in his unfaithfulness, we have prepared and consecrated, and they are now before the altar of the LORD. 20 Early in the morning, King Hezekiah gathered the city officials and went up to the house of the LORD. 21 They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs, and seven goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, the sanctuary, and Judah, and he instructed the descendants of Aaron, the priests, to offer them on the altar of the LORD. 22 The bulls were slaughtered, and the priests collected the blood and splashed it against the altar. Then the rams were slaughtered, and their blood was splashed against the altar. Likewise, the lambs were slaughtered, and their blood was splashed against the altar. 23 Finally, the goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, who laid their hands on them. 24 The priests slaughtered the animals, then took their blood and sprinkled it on the altar to make atonement for all Israel, as the king had commanded, for the burnt offering and the sin offering were for all Israel. 25 He stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres, according to the command of David, Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet; the command was from the LORD through His prophets. 26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests stood with the trumpets. 27 Hezekiah gave the order to offer the burnt offering on the altar. As the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets also began, accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel. 28 The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the singers sang and the trumpeters sounded, all until the burnt offering was completed. 29 When the offering was finished, the king and all who were present with him knelt down and worshiped. 30 King Hezekiah and the officials commanded the Levites to praise the LORD with the words of David and Asaph the seer. They sang praises with joy and bowed down in worship. 31 Then Hezekiah said, 'Now that you have consecrated yourselves to the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.' So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all who were willing brought burnt offerings. 32 The number of burnt offerings the assembly brought was: seventy cattle, one hundred rams, and two hundred lambs—all as burnt offerings to the LORD. 33 The consecrated offerings included six hundred cattle and three thousand sheep. 34 But because there were too few priests to skin all the burnt offerings, their Levite brothers helped them until the work was completed and the priests had consecrated themselves, for the Levites were more diligent in consecrating themselves than the priests. 35 In addition to the burnt offerings, there were abundant fat portions of peace offerings and drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in proper order. 36 Hezekiah and all the people rejoiced because of what God had prepared for the people, for it had happened suddenly.
• 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites, who showed good understanding of the service to the LORD. They ate throughout the appointed seven days, offering fellowship sacrifices and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
• Ps 119:24 : 24 Your testimonies are my delight; they are my counselors.
• Jer 2:8 : 8 The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ Those who handle the law did not know me; the shepherds rebelled against me; the prophets prophesied by Baal and followed worthless things.
• Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us,’ when the false pen of the scribes has produced lies? 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus said, 'I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.'
• Matt 13:11 : 11 Jesus replied, "The mysteries of the kingdom of heaven have been given to you to know, but not to them.
• Matt 15:6-9 : 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying, 8 ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. 9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
• Matt 23:24-36 : 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel. 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity. 28 So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous, 30 and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.' 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins! 33 You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? 34 Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town, 35 so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
• 2 Tim 3:15-17 : 15 And from childhood you have known the sacred Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.
• Heb 5:12 : 12 By this time you ought to be teachers, but instead you need someone to teach you again the elementary truths of God's word, and you need milk, not solid food.
• Matt 15:14 : 14 Leave them alone; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”