Psalms 17:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲנִ֗י בְּ֭צֶדֶק אֶחֱזֶ֣ה פָנֶ֑יךָ אֶשְׂבְּעָ֥ה בְ֝הָקִ֗יץ תְּמוּנָתֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

'Ănî bǝṣedeq 'eḥězeh fāneykā 'eśbǝ'āh bǝhāqîṣ tǝmûnātekā

Grammar Details

• *'Ănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *bǝṣedeq*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in righteousness
• *'eḥězeh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I will behold/gaze upon
• *fāneykā*: noun, masculine plural + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your face
• *'eśbǝ'āh*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular (cohortative) - I will be satisfied
• *bǝhāqîṣ*: preposition + verb, hiphil infinitive construct - in awakening
• *tǝmûnātekā*: noun, feminine singular + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your form/likeness

Word Meanings

• *bǝṣedeq*: in righteousness/justness/rightness
• *'eḥězeh*: I will behold/gaze upon/perceive
• *bǝhāqîṣ*: in awakening/when I awake
• *tǝmûnātekā*: your form/likeness/image/representation

Referenced Verses

• Ps 11:7 : 7 For the righteous LORD loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.
• Ps 16:11 : 11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
• Isa 26:19 : 19 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
• Job 19:26-27 : 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: 27 Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
• Phil 3:21 : 21 Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.
• 1 John 3:2-3 : 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
• Rev 21:3-4 : 3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4 And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
• Rev 21:23 : 23 And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
• Rev 7:16-17 : 16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
• Ps 4:6-7 : 6 There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
• Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
• Matt 5:6 : 6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
• Matt 27:52-53 : 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
• 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
• Ps 36:8-9 : 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink{H8686)} of the river of thy pleasures. 9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.
• Ps 49:14 : 14 Like sheep they are laid{H8804)} in the grave; death shall feed{H8799)} on them; and the upright shall have dominion{H8799)} over them in the morning; and their beauty{H8675)} shall consume{H8763)} in the grave from their dwelling.
• Ps 65:4 : 4 Blessed is the man whom thou choosest{H8799)}, and causest to approach{H8762)} unto thee, that he may dwell{H8799)} in thy courts: we shall be satisfied{H8799)} with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
• Ps 119:111 : 111 Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
• Gen 1:26-27 : 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
• Num 12:8 : 8 With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
• Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
• Job 14:12 : 12 So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.