Psalms 119:46

Geneva Bible (1560)

I will speake also of thy testimonies before Kings, and will not be ashamed.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲדַבְּרָ֣ה בְ֭עֵדֹתֶיךָ נֶ֥גֶד מְלָכִ֗ים וְלֹ֣א אֵבֽוֹשׁ׃

Transliteration

And-ʾăḏabbǝrāh in-ʿēḏōṯeykā before mǝlāḵîm and-not ʾēḇôš

Grammar Details

• *waʾăḏabbǝrāh*: conjunction + piel imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I will speak
• *ḇǝʿēḏōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - of your testimonies
• *neḡeḏ*: preposition - before/in front of
• *mǝlāḵîm*: masculine plural noun - kings
• *wǝlōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *ʾēḇôš*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will be ashamed

Word Meanings

• *ʾăḏabbǝrāh*: I will speak/talk/declare
• *ʿēḏōṯeykā*: your testimonies/witnesses/decrees
• *ʾēḇôš*: I will be ashamed/embarrassed/disappointed

Referenced Verses

• Acts 26:1-2 : 1 Then Agrippa sayd vnto Paul, Thou art permitted to speake for thy selfe. So Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himselfe. 2 I thinke my selfe happy, King Agrippa, because I shall answere this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the Iewes.
• Acts 26:24-29 : 24 And as he thus answered for himselfe, Festus said with a loude voyce, Paul, thou art besides thy selfe: much learning doeth make thee mad. 25 But he said, I am not mad, O noble Festus, but I speake the wordes of trueth and sobernes. 26 For the King knoweth of these things, before whom also I speake boldly: for I am perswaded that none of these things are hidden from him: for this thing was not done in a corner. 27 O King Agrippa, beleeuest thou the Prophets? I know that thou beleeuest. 28 Then Agrippa said vnto Paul, Almost thou perswadest me to become a Christian. 29 Then Paul sayd, I would to God that not onely thou, but also all that heare me to day, were both almost, and altogether such as I am, except these bonds.
• Rom 1:16 : 16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth, to the Iewe first, and also to the Grecian.
• Phil 1:20 : 20 As I feruently looke for, and hope, that in nothing I shalbe ashamed, but that with all confidence, as alwayes, so nowe Christ shalbe magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death.
• Ps 138:1 : 1 A Psalme of Dauid. I will praise thee with my whole heart: euen before the gods will I praise thee.
• Dan 3:16-18 : 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered and said to the King, O Nebuchad-nezzar, we are not carefull to answere thee in this matter. 17 Beholde, our God whom we serue, is able to deliuer vs from the hote fierie fornace, and hee will deliuer vs out of thine hand, O King. 18 But if not, bee it knowen to thee, O King, that wee will not serue thy gods, nor worship the golden image, which thou hast set vp.
• Dan 4:1-3 : 1 (3:31) Nebuchad-nezzar King vnto all people, nations & languages, that dwell in all the world, Peace be multiplied vnto you: 2 (3:32) I thought it good to declare the signes and wonders, that the hie God hath wrought toward me. 3 (3:33) How great are his signes, and how mightie are his wonders! his kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
• Dan 4:25-27 : 25 (4:22) That they shall driue thee from men, and thy dwelling shalbe with the beasts of the fielde: they shall make thee to eate grasse as the oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dewe of heauen: and seuen times shall passe ouer thee, till thou knowe, that the most High beareth rule ouer the kingdome of men, and giueth it to whom so euer he will. 26 (4:23) Where as they sayd, that one should leaue the stumpe of the tree rootes, thy kingdome shall remaine vnto thee: after that, thou shalt knowe, that the heauens haue the rule. 27 (4:24) Wherefore, O King, let my counsell be acceptable vnto thee, and breake off thy sinnes by righteousnes, and thine iniquities by mercy toward the poore: lo, let there be an healing of thine errour.
• Matt 10:18-19 : 18 And ye shal be brought to the gouernours and Kings for my sake, in witnes to them, and to the Gentiles. 19 But when they deliuer you vp, take no thought howe or what ye shall speake: for it shall be giuen you in that houre, what ye shall say.
• Mark 8:38 : 38 For whosoeuer shall be ashamed of mee, and of my wordes among this adulterous and sinfull generation, of him shall the Sonne of man be ashamed also, when he commeth in the glorie of his Father with the holy Angels.
• 2 Tim 1:8 : 8 Be not therefore ashamed of the testimonie of our Lord, neither of me his prisoner: but be partaker of the afflictions of the Gospel, according to the power of God,
• 2 Tim 1:16 : 16 The Lord giue mercie vnto the house of Onesiphorus: for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chaine,
• 1 Pet 4:14-16 : 14 If yee be railed vpon for the Name of Christ, blessed are ye: for the spirit of glory, and of God resteth vpon you: which on their part is euill spoken of: but on your part is glorified. 15 But let none of you suffer as a murtherer, or as a thiefe, or an euil doer, or as a busibodie in other mens matters. 16 But if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not bee ashamed: but let him glorifie God in this behalfe.
• 1 John 2:28 : 28 And nowe, litle children, abide in him, that when he shall appeare, we may be bolde, and not be ashamed before him at his comming.