Psalms 119:29

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דֶּֽרֶךְ־שֶׁ֭קֶר הָסֵ֣ר מִמֶּ֑נִּי וְֽתוֹרָתְךָ֥ חָנֵּֽנִי׃

Transliteration

dereḵ-šeqer hāsēr from-me and-tôrātəḵā ḥānnēnî

Grammar Details

• *dereḵ*-*šeqer*: masculine singular construct + masculine singular noun - way of falsehood
• *hāsēr*: Hiphil imperative masculine singular - remove
• from-me: preposition *min* + 1st person singular suffix - from me
• and-*tôrātəḵā*: conjunction *wə* + feminine singular noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - and your law
• *ḥānnēnî*: Qal imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - be gracious to me

Word Meanings

• *dereḵ*: way/path/journey/manner
• *šeqer*: falsehood/lie/deception/disappointment
• *hāsēr*: remove/take away/turn aside
• *tôrātəḵā*: your law/instruction/teaching/direction
• *ḥānnēnî*: be gracious to me/show favor to me/have mercy on me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 119:5 : 5 O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
• Ps 119:37 : 37 Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
• Ps 119:104 : 104 Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:128 : 128 Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
• Ps 119:163 : 163 I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
• Ps 141:3-4 : 3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips. 4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
• Prov 30:8 : 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
• Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
• Jer 31:33-34 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
• Jonah 2:8 : 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
• Eph 4:22-25 : 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; 23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; 24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Heb 8:10-11 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
• 1 John 1:8 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
• 1 John 2:4 : 4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.