Psalms 119:48

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְאֶשָּֽׂא־כַפַּ֗י אֶֽל־מִ֭צְוֺתֶיךָ אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָהָ֗בְתִּי וְאָשִׂ֥יחָה בְחֻקֶּֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

And-ʾeśśāʾ-ḵappay to-miṣwōṯeyḵā which ʾāhāḇtî and-ʾāśîḥāh in-ḥuqqeykā

Grammar Details

*wǝʾeśśāʾ-ḵappay*: conjunction + qal imperfect 1st person singular + feminine dual noun + 1st person singular suffix - and I will lift up my palms/hands
*ʾel-miṣwōṯeyḵā*: preposition + feminine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to your commandments
*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - which/that
*ʾāhāḇtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I love/have loved
*wǝʾāśîḥāh*: conjunction + qal imperfect cohortative 1st person singular - and I will meditate
*ḇǝḥuqqeykā*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - on your statutes

Word Meanings

*ʾeśśāʾ-ḵappay*: I will lift up my hands/palms (in worship/commitment)
*ʾāśîḥāh*: I will meditate/consider/ponder
*ḥuqqeykā*: your statutes/decrees/ordinances

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 119:15 : 15 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
Ezek 44:12 : 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
Mic 5:9 : 9 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.
Matt 7:21 : 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
John 13:17 : 17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
John 15:14 : 14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Jas 1:22-25 : 22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Ps 1:2 : 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Ps 10:12 : 12 Arise, O LORD; O God, lift up thine hand: forget not the humble.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 119:47
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47And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Ps 119:15-16
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15I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.
16I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 119:97
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97MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Ps 119:73
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73JOD. Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.
Ps 119:171-174
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171My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.
173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
174I have longed for thy salvation, O LORD; and thy law is my delight.
Ps 119:49
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49ZAIN. Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou hast caused me to hope.
Ps 119:127
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127Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.
Ps 119:159
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159Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.
Ps 63:4
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4Thus will I bless{H8762)} thee while I live: I will lift up{H8799)} my hands in thy name.
Ps 119:117
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117Hold thou me up, and I shall be safe: and I will have respect unto thy statutes continually.
Ps 143:5
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5I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
Ps 119:143
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143Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me: yet thy commandments are my delights.
Ps 119:4-8
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4Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently.
5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
7I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
8I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
Ps 119:167-168
2 verses
71%
167My soul hath kept thy testimonies; and I love them exceedingly.
168I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.
Ps 119:112
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112I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes alway, even unto the end.
Ps 138:2
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2I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
Ps 119:10-12
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70%
10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
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Ps 28:2
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2Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Ps 119:66
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66Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Ps 18:1
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1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
Ps 134:2
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2Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Ps 119:32-35
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70%
32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
33HE. Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I shall keep it unto the end.
34Give me understanding, and I shall keep thy law; yea, I shall observe it with my whole heart.
35Make me to go in the path of thy commandments; for therein do I delight.
Ps 119:40
69%
40Behold, I have longed after thy precepts: quicken me in thy righteousness.
Ps 119:18
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18Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.
Ps 119:45
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45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
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2Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Ps 119:131
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131I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
Ps 119:59-60
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59I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
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Ps 77:12
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12I will meditate{H8804)} also of all thy work, and talk{H8799)} of thy doings.
Ps 119:54
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54Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
Ps 119:108-109
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69%
108Accept, I beseech thee, the freewill offerings of my mouth, O LORD, and teach me thy judgments.
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Ps 119:148
68%
148Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.
Ps 119:26
68%
26I have declared my ways, and thou heardest me: teach me thy statutes.
Ps 119:62
68%
62At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.