Psalms 119:100

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

📖 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 the very aged `is' wisdom, And `with' length of days understanding.
• Job 15:9-9 : 9 What hast thou known, and we know not? Understandest thou -- and it is not with us? 10 Both the gray-headed And the very aged `are' among us -- Greater than thy father `in' days.
• Job 28:28 : 28 And He saith to man: -- `Lo, fear of the Lord, that `is' wisdom, And to turn from evil `is' understanding.'
• Job 32:4 : 4 And Elihu hath waited earnestly beside Job with words, for they are older than he in days.
• Job 32:7-9 : 7 I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom. 8 Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand. 9 The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment. 10 Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion -- even I.
• Ps 111:10 : 10 The beginning of wisdom `is' fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise `is' standing for ever!
• Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do ye say, We `are' wise, And the law of Jehovah `is' with us? Surely, lo, falsely it hath wrought, The false pen of scribes. 9 Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?
• Matt 7:24 : 24 `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;
• Jas 3:13 : 13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
• 1 Kgs 12:6-9 : 6 And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?' 7 And they speak unto him, saying, `If, to-day, thou art servant to this people, and hast served them, and answered them, and spoken unto them good words, then they have been to thee servants all the days.' 8 And he forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, who are standing before him; 9 and he saith unto them, `What are ye counselling, and we answer this people, who have spoken unto me, saying, Lighten `somewhat' of the yoke that thy father put upon us?' 10 And they speak unto him -- the lads who had grown up with him -- saying, `Thus dost thou say to this people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make `it' light upon us; thus dost thou speak unto them, My little `finger' is thicker than the loins of my father; 11 and now, my father laid on you a heavy yoke, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- I chastise you with scorpions.' 12 And they come -- Jeroboam and all the people -- unto Rehoboam, on the third day, as the king had spoken, saying, `Come back unto me on the third day.' 13 And the king answereth the people sharply, and forsaketh the counsel of the elders which they counselled him, 14 and speaketh unto them, according to the counsel of the lads, saying, `My father made your yoke heavy, and I add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, and I -- I chastise you with scorpions;' 15 and the king hearkened not unto the people, for the revolution was from Jehovah, in order to establish His word that Jehovah spake by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam son of Nebat.