Psalms 119:25

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

DALETH. My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דָּֽבְקָ֣ה לֶעָפָ֣ר נַפְשִׁ֑י חַ֝יֵּ֗נִי כִּדְבָרֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

dāḇəqâ to-ʿāp̄ār nap̄šî ḥayyēnî according-to-diḇāreḵā

Grammar Details

*dāḇəqâ*: Qal perfect 3rd person feminine singular - it cleaves/clings
to-*ʿāp̄ār*: preposition *lə* + masculine singular noun - to dust
*nap̄šî*: feminine singular noun + 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*ḥayyēnî*: Piel imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - give me life
according-to-*diḇāreḵā*: preposition *kə* + masculine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - according to your word

Word Meanings

*dāḇəqâ*: cleaves/clings/adheres/sticks
*ʿāp̄ār*: dust/powder/earth/ashes
*nap̄šî*: my soul/self/life/being/desire
*ḥayyēnî*: give me life/revive me/preserve me
*diḇāreḵā*: your word/speech/matter/command

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:25 : 25 For our soul is bowed down{H8804)} to the dust: our belly cleaveth{H8804)} unto the earth.
Ps 119:40 : 40 Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Ps 119:93 : 93 I will never forget thy precepts: for with them thou hast quickened me.
Ps 119:159 : 159 Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Ps 143:11 : 11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
Ps 119:149 : 149 Hear my voice according unto thy lovingkindness: O LORD, quicken me according to thy judgment.
Ps 119:156 : 156 Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.
Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Col 3:2 : 2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
Ps 119:107 : 107 I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.
Ps 119:88 : 88 Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
Ps 71:20 : 20 Thou, which hast shewed{H8689)} me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken{H8762)} me again{H8799)}, and shalt bring me up{H8686)} again{H8799)} from the depths of the earth.
Ps 80:18 : 18 So will not we go back{H8799)} from thee: quicken{H8762)} us, and we will call{H8799)} upon thy name.
Deut 30:6 : 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
2 Sam 7:27-29 : 27 For thou, O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. 28 And now, O Lord GOD, thou art that God, and thy words be true, and thou hast promised this goodness unto thy servant: 29 Therefore now let it please thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Lord GOD, hast spoken it: and with thy blessing let the house of thy servant be blessed for ever.
Ps 22:15 : 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
Isa 65:25 : 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Matt 16:23 : 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
Rom 7:22-24 : 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?
Rom 8:2-3 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Phil 3:19 : 19 Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

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