Psalms 139:23

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חָקְרֵ֣נִי אֵ֭ל וְדַ֣ע לְבָבִ֑י בְּ֝חָנֵ֗נִי וְדַ֣ע שַׂרְעַפָּֽי׃

Transliteration

ḥāqrēnî ʾēl and-daʿ ləbābî; bəḥānēnî and-daʿ śarʿappāy

Grammar Details

*ḥāqrēnî*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - search me
*ʾēl*: noun, masculine singular - God
*daʿ*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular - know
*ləbābî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my heart
*bəḥānēnî*: verb, Qal imperative masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - test me
*śarʿappāy*: noun, masculine plural + 1st person singular suffix - my thoughts

Word Meanings

*ḥāqrēnî*: search me/examine me/investigate me
*ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
*daʿ*: know/understand/perceive
*ləbābî*: my heart/my mind/my inner self
*bəḥānēnî*: test me/try me/examine me
*śarʿappāy*: my thoughts/my anxieties/my concerns

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Reference numbers can disrupt continuous reading
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Referenced Verses

Ps 26:2 : 2 Examine me, O LORD, and prove me; try my reins and my heart.
Job 31:6 : 6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
1 Pet 1:7 : 7 That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Prov 17:3 : 3 The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the LORD trieth the hearts.
Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
Deut 8:2 : 2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Ps 139:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
Mal 3:2-3 : 2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap: 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
Jer 11:20 : 20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.
Deut 8:16 : 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;

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1To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
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