Psalms 40:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I delight{H8804)} to do{H8800)} thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָ֣ז אָ֭מַרְתִּי הִנֵּה־בָ֑אתִי בִּמְגִלַּת־סֵ֝֗פֶר כָּת֥וּב עָלָֽי

Transliteration

ʾāz ʾāmartî hinnēh-bāʾtî in məḡillat-sēper kātûb ʿālay

Grammar Details

*ʾāz*: adverb of time - 'then'
*ʾāmartî*: Qal perfect, 1st person singular - 'I said'
*hinnēh-bāʾtî*: interjection + Qal perfect, 1st person singular - 'behold, I have come'
*məḡillat-sēper*: feminine singular construct noun + masculine singular noun - 'scroll of book/written document'
*kātûb*: Qal passive participle, masculine singular - 'it is written'
*ʿālay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - 'concerning me/upon me'

Word Meanings

*ʾāz*: then/at that time
*hinnēh*: behold/lo/see
*məḡillat-sēper*: scroll of book/book scroll/written document/roll of writing
*kātûb ʿālay*: written concerning me/prescribed for me/written about me

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Jer 31:33 : 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.
Ps 119:24 : 24 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
Ps 119:47 : 47 And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
Ps 119:92 : 92 Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
Jer 15:16 : 16 Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
Rom 7:22 : 22 For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Ps 119:16 : 16 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Ps 37:30-31 : 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh{H8762)} of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide.
Ps 112:1 : 1 Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
2 Cor 3:3 : 3 Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

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