Psalms 119:100

Webster's Bible (1833)

I understand more than the aged, Because I have kept your precepts.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִזְּקֵנִ֥ים אֶתְבּוֹנָ֑ן כִּ֖י פִקּוּדֶ֣יךָ נָצָֽרְתִּי׃

Transliteration

From zəqēnîm ʾetbônān for piqqûdêkā nāṣārtî

Grammar Details

• *zəqēnîm*: masculine plural noun - elders/aged ones
• *ʾetbônān*: hitpael imperfect 1st person singular - I understand/consider/discern
• *piqqûdêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your precepts
• *nāṣārtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have kept/preserved/observed
• *mi-*: preposition - from/more than
• *kî*: conjunction - for/because

Word Meanings

• *zəqēnîm*: elders/aged ones/the elderly
• *ʾetbônān*: I understand/I discern/I gain understanding
• *piqqûdêkā*: your precepts/your orders/your commands
• *nāṣārtî*: I have kept/preserved/guarded/observed

Referenced Verses

• Job 12:12 : 12 With aged men is wisdom, In length of days understanding.
• Job 15:9-9 : 9 What do you know, that we don't know? What do you understand, which is not in us? 10 With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.
• Job 28:28 : 28 To man he said, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom. To depart from evil is understanding.'"
• Job 32:4 : 4 Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job, because they were elder than he.
• Job 32:7-9 : 7 I said, 'Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.' 8 But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding. 9 It is not the great who are wise, Nor the aged who understand justice. 10 Therefore I said, 'Listen to me; I also will show my opinion.'
• Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. All those who do his work have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
• Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do you say, We are wise, and the law of Yahweh is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has worked falsely. 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
• Matt 7:24 : 24 "Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on a rock.
• Jas 3:13 : 13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
• 1 Kgs 12:6-9 : 6 King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give you me to return answer to this people? 7 They spoke to him, saying, If you will be a servant to this people this day, and will serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever. 8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him. 9 He said to them, What counsel do you give, that we may return answer to this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke that your father did put on us lighter? 10 The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins. 11 Now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 12 So Jeroboam and all the people came to Rehoboam the third day, as the king bade, saying, Come to me again the third day. 13 The king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions. 15 So the king didn't listen to the people; for it was a thing brought about of Yahweh, that he might establish his word, which Yahweh spoke by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.