Psalms 119:174

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תָּאַ֣בְתִּי לִֽישׁוּעָתְךָ֣ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝ת֥וֹרָתְךָ֗ שַׁעֲשֻׁעָֽי

Transliteration

Tāʾaḇtî lîšûʿātəḵā YHWH wətôrātəḵā šaʿăšuʿāy

Grammar Details

*tāʾaḇtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have longed
*lî-*: preposition - for
*yəšûʿātəḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your salvation
*YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
*wə-*: conjunction - and
*tôrātəḵā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your law
*šaʿăšuʿāy*: masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - my delight

Word Meanings

*tāʾaḇtî*: I have longed/desired/craved
*yəšûʿātəḵā*: your salvation/deliverance/help
*tôrātəḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction
*šaʿăšuʿāy*: my delight/pleasure/enjoyment

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Ps 119:77 : 77 Let thy tender mercies come unto me, that I may live: for thy law is my delight.
Ps 119:81 : 81 CAPH. My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy word.
Ps 119:111 : 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
Ps 119:162 : 162 I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.
Ps 119:166-167 : 166 LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments. 167 My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
Prov 13:12 : 12 Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
Song 5:8 : 8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
Rom 7:22-25 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.
Rom 8:23-25 : 23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. 24 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? 25 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.
Phil 1:23 : 23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better:
Gen 49:18 : 18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
2 Sam 23:5 : 5 Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.
Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 119:76-77
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166LORD, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.
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Ps 119:40-41
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142Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
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47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
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Ps 119:20
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Ps 119:131
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Ps 119:34-35
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34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
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Ps 119:162
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Ps 119:81
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Ps 119:10-12
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Ps 119:74
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74They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word.
Ps 119:54
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54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Ps 119:24
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149Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Ps 119:70
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70Their heart is as fat as grease; but I delight in thy law.
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Ps 21:1
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Ps 119:111
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