Psalms 119:176

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תָּעִ֗יתִי כְּשֶׂ֣ה אֹ֭בֵד בַּקֵּ֣שׁ עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ כִּ֥י מִ֝צְוֺתֶיךָ֗ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי

Transliteration

Tāʿîtî kəśeh ʾōḇēḏ baqqēš ʿaḇdekā kî miṣwōteḵā lōʾ šāḵāḥtî

Grammar Details

• *tāʿîtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have wandered/gone astray
• *kə-*: preposition - like/as
• *śeh*: masculine singular noun - sheep/lamb
• *ʾōḇēḏ*: qal participle masculine singular - being lost/perishing
• *baqqēš*: piel imperative masculine singular - seek
• *ʿaḇdekā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your servant
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *miṣwōteḵā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your commandments
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *šāḵāḥtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have forgotten

Word Meanings

• *tāʿîtî*: I have wandered/gone astray/been lost
• *śeh*: sheep/lamb
• *ʾōḇēḏ*: perishing/lost/destroyed/straying
• *baqqēš*: seek/search for/look for
• *ʿaḇdekā*: your servant/slave
• *miṣwōteḵā*: your commandments/precepts/ordinances
• *šāḵāḥtî*: I have forgotten/neglected/ignored

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:61 : 61 The bands of the wicked have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.
• Song 1:4 : 4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
• Isa 53:6 : 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
• Ezek 34:6 : 6 My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
• Matt 15:24 : 24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Luke 15:4-7 : 4 What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? 5 And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing. 6 And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and neighbours, saying unto them, Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost. 7 I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.
• John 10:16 : 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.
• Phil 2:13 : 13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
• 1 Pet 2:25 : 25 For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
• Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.
• Matt 18:12-13 : 12 How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.
• Matt 10:6 : 6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
• Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
• Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.