Psalms 15:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הוֹלֵ֣ךְ תָּ֭מִים וּפֹעֵ֥ל צֶ֑דֶק וְדֹבֵ֥ר אֱ֝מֶ֗ת בִּלְבָֽבוֹ׃

Transliteration

Hōlēk tāmîm and-pōʿēl ṣedeq and-dōbēr ʾĕmet in-lĕbābô.

Grammar Details

• *Hōlēk*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - walking/going
• *tāmîm*: adjective, masculine singular - blameless/complete/perfect
• *pōʿēl*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - doing/working
• *ṣedeq*: noun, masculine singular - righteousness/justice
• *dōbēr*: verb, qal participle, masculine singular - speaking
• *ʾĕmet*: noun, feminine singular - truth/faithfulness
• *lĕbābô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd masculine singular suffix - his heart

Word Meanings

• *Hōlēk tāmîm*: walks blamelessly/walks with integrity/walks perfectly
• *pōʿēl ṣedeq*: works righteousness/does justice/practices what is right
• *dōbēr ʾĕmet*: speaks truth/speaks honestly
• *lĕbābô*: his heart/his mind/his inner being

Referenced Verses

• Eph 4:25 : 25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
• Col 3:9 : 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
• Ps 34:12-13 : 12 What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.
• Prov 28:18 : 18 Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved: but he that is perverse in his ways shall fall at once.
• Mic 2:7 : 7 O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
• Prov 2:7-8 : 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. 8 He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
• Heb 11:33 : 33 Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
• 1 John 2:6 : 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
• Luke 1:6 : 6 And they were both righteous before God, walking in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless.
• Rom 2:10 : 10 But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:
• 1 John 3:7 : 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
• Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
• 1 John 2:29 : 29 If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.
• Ps 24:4 : 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
• Isa 33:15 : 15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
• Isa 63:8 : 8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
• Zech 8:16-17 : 16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: 17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.
• Ps 84:11 : 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give{H8799)} grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold{H8799)} from them that walk{H8802)} uprightly.
• Gal 2:14 : 14 But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
• Acts 10:35 : 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Rev 22:14-15 : 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.