Psalms 119:66

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

ט֤וּב טַ֣עַם וָדַ֣עַת לַמְּדֵ֑נִי כִּ֖י בְמִצְוֺתֶ֣יךָ הֶאֱמָֽנְתִּי׃

Transliteration

ṭûḇ ṭaʿam and-ḏaʿaṯ lammdēnî for in-miṣwōṯeykā heʾĕmantî

Grammar Details

• *ṭûḇ*: masculine singular construct - goodness of
• *ṭaʿam*: masculine singular noun - taste/judgment/discernment
• *wāḏaʿaṯ*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - and knowledge
• *lammdēnî*: piel imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - teach me
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḇǝmiṣwōṯeykā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - in your commandments
• *heʾĕmantî*: hiphil perfect 1st person singular - I have believed

Word Meanings

• *ṭûḇ ṭaʿam*: good judgment/good sense/good discretion
• *ḏaʿaṯ*: knowledge/understanding/insight
• *heʾĕmantî*: I have believed/trusted/put faith in

Referenced Verses

• Phil 1:9 : 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
• Jas 3:13-18 : 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• Judg 3:15 : 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.
• 1 Kgs 3:9 : 9 Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
• 1 Kgs 3:28 : 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.
• Neh 9:13-14 : 13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
• Ps 72:1-2 : 1 Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the king's son. 2 He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
• Ps 119:34 : 34 Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:160 : 160 Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.
• Ps 119:172 : 172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
• Prov 2:1-9 : 1 My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; 3 Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. 6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints. 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
• Prov 8:20 : 20 I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment:
• Isa 11:2-4 : 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD; 3 And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• Matt 13:11 : 11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.