Psalms 119:147

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קִדַּ֣מְתִּי בַ֭נֶּשֶׁף וָאֲשַׁוֵּ֑עָה *לדבריך **לִדְבָרְךָ֥ יִחָֽלְתִּי׃

Transliteration

qiddamtî in nešep wāʾăšawwēʿāh to ḏəḇārəkā yiḥāltî

Grammar Details

• *qiddamtî*: perfect, 1st person singular, piel - I arose before/I anticipated
• *nešep*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the dawn/twilight
• *wāʾăšawwēʿāh*: conjunction + imperfect, 1st person singular, piel - and I cried for help
• *ḏəḇārəkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your word
• *yiḥāltî*: perfect, 1st person singular, piel - I hoped

Word Meanings

• *qiddamtî*: I arose before/I anticipated/I preceded
• *nešep*: dawn/twilight/early morning
• *ʾăšawwēʿāh*: I cried for help/I called for aid/I pleaded
• *ḏəḇārəkā*: your word/your promise/your speech
• *yiḥāltî*: I hoped/I waited/I expected

Referenced Verses

• Ps 5:3 : 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
• Ps 130:5-6 : 5 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. 6 My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
• Mark 1:35 : 35 And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
• Heb 6:17-19 : 17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: 18 That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: 19 Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;
• Ps 21:3 : 3 For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.
• Ps 42:8 : 8 Yet the LORD will command{H8762)} his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
• Ps 56:4 : 4 In God I will praise{H8762)} his word, in God I have put my trust{H8804)}; I will not fear{H8799)} what flesh can do{H8799)} unto me.
• Ps 57:8 : 8 Awake up{H8798)}, my glory; awake{H8798)}, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake{H8686)} early.
• Ps 88:13 : 13 But unto thee have I cried{H8765)}, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent{H8762)} thee.
• Ps 108:2 : 2 Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
• Ps 119:74 : 74 They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
• Ps 119:81 : 81 CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
• Isa 26:9 : 9 With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.