Psalms 119:142

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

צִדְקָתְךָ֣ צֶ֣דֶק לְעוֹלָ֑ם וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ אֱמֶֽת׃

Transliteration

ṣiḏqātəkā ṣeḏeq to ʿôlām wətôrātəkā ʾĕmet

Grammar Details

*ṣiḏqātəkā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your righteousness
*ṣeḏeq*: masculine singular noun - righteousness
*ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - eternity/forever
*wətôrātəkā*: conjunction + feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your law
*ʾĕmet*: feminine singular noun - truth

Word Meanings

*ṣiḏqātəkā*: your righteousness/your justice/your righteous acts
*ṣeḏeq*: righteousness/justice/rightness
*ʿôlām*: eternity/forever/perpetuity
*tôrātəkā*: your law/your instruction/your teaching
*ʾĕmet*: truth/faithfulness/reliability

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 19:9 : 9 The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Ps 119:151 : 151 Thou art near, O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth.
Isa 51:6 : 6 Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
Isa 51:8 : 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.
John 17:17 : 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
Ps 36:6 : 6 Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
Ps 119:144 : 144 The righteousness of thy testimonies is everlasting: give me understanding, and I shall live.
2 Thess 1:6-9 : 6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you; 7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power; 10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
Eph 4:21 : 21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

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