PSA 119

Psalm 119:172

WEB

Let my tongue sing of your word, for all your commandments are righteousness.

BSB

My tongue sings of Your word, for all Your commandments are righteous.

KJV

My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness.

Matthew Henry

Verse 172

Psalms 119:172

Observe here, 1. The good knowledge David had of the word of God; he knew it so well that he was ready to own, with the utmost satisfaction, that all God's commandments are not only righteous, but righteousness itself, the rule and standard of righteousness. 2. The good use he resolved to make of that knowledge: My tongue shall speak of thy word, not only utter praise for it to the glory of God, but discourse of it for the instruction and edification of others, as that which he himself was full of (for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak) and as that which he desired others also might be filled with. The more we see of the righteousness of God's commandments the more industrious we should be to bring others acquainted with them, that they may be ruled by them. We should always make the word of God the governor of our discourse, so as never to transgress it by sinful speaking or sinful silence; and we should often make it the subject-matter of our discourse, that it may feed many and minister grace to the hearers.

Hebrew interlinear

H6030

עָנָהʻânâh/aw-naw'/

v — eye, heed, pay attention, respond, begin to speak, sing, shout, testify, announce

Derivation: a primitive root;

properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e. pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout, testify, announce

KJV: give account, afflict (by mistake for 6031), (cause to, give) answer, bring low (by mistake for 6031), cry, hear, Leannoth, lift up, say, × scholar, (give a) shout, sing (together by course), speak, testify, utter, (bear) witness. See also 1042, 1043.

עוּן

vb — dwell

[עוּן] vb. dwell

עָנָה

vb — sing

עָנָה vb. sing

Qal sing, utter tunefully

Pi. sing sweetly of it

עָנָה

vb — answer

עָנָה 316 vb. answer, respond

Qal

1. answer, respond to sthg. said, actual or implied

2.

a. respond to an occasion, speak in view of circumstances

b. money meets all demands

3.

a. specif. respond as a witness, testify

b. less oft. make response as one accused (respondent)

Niph.

1. make answer

2. be answered

Hiph. wholly dub.; causes all things to respond in the joy of his heart

H3956

לָשׁוֹןlâshôwn/law-shone'/

n-m — tongue

Derivation: or לָשֹׁן; also (in plural) feminine לְשֹׁנָה; from 3960;

the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)

KJV: babbler, bay, evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.

לָשׁוֹן

n.m — tongue

לָשׁוֹן n.m. and (more oft.) f. tongue

1. tongue of men

2. = language

3. tongue of animals

4. tongue of fire

5. = (tongue-shaped) wedge of gold

6. = (tongue-shaped) bay of sea

H565

אִמְרָהʼimrâh/im-raw'/

n-f — commandment

Derivation: or אֶמְרָה; feminine of 561, and meaning the same

KJV: commandment, speech, word.

אִמְרָה

n.f — utterance

[אִמְרָה] n.f. utternace, speech, word

אֶמְרָה

n.f — utterance

[אֶמְרָה] n.f. id. [a.ea.ac] La 2:17.

H3588

כִּיkîy/kee/

conj — relative conjunction

Derivation: a primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent;

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

KJV: and, (forasmuch, inasmuch, where-) as, assured(-ly), but, certainly, doubtless, else, even, except, for, how, (because, in, so, than) that, nevertheless, now, rightly, seeing, since, surely, then, therefore, (al-) though, till, truly, until, when, whether, while, whom, yea, yet.

כִּי

conj — that

כִּי conj. that, for, when

1. that

2.

a. Of time, when, of the past

b. elsewhere כִּי has a force approximating to if, though it usu. represents a case as more likely to occur than אִם

c. when or if, with a concessive force, i.e. though

3. Because, since

כִּי אם־

relative conjunction

כִּי אם־

1. each part. retaining its independent force, and relating to a different clause:

a. that if

b. for if

2. (About 140 t.) the two particles being closely conjoined, and relating to the same clause—

a. limiting the prec. clause, except

b. the if being neglected, and treated as pleonastic, so that the clause is no longer a limitation of the preceding clause but a contradiction of it: but rather, but

c. after an oath, surely

כִּי עַל כֵּן

forasmuch as

כִּי עַל כֵּן forasmuch as

H3605

כֹּלkôl/kole/

n-m — whole, all, any, every

Derivation: or (Jeremiah 33:8) כּוֹל; from 3634;

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

KJV: (in) all (manner, (ye)), altogether, any (manner), enough, every (one, place, thing), howsoever, as many as, (no-) thing, ought, whatsoever, (the) whole, whoso(-ever).

כֹּל

n.m — the whole

כֹּל once כּוֹל n.m. the whole, all

1. with foll. gen. (as usually) the whole of, to be rendered, however, often in our idiom, to avoid stiffness, any or every

2. Absolutely:

a. without the art., all things, all

b. with the art. הַכֹּל

(a). where the sense is limited by the context to things (or persons) just mentioned

(b). in a wider sense, all, whether of all mankind or of all living things, the universe, or of all the circumstances of life (chiefly late)

H4687

מִצְוָהmitsvâh/mits-vaw'/

n-f — command, Law

Derivation: from 6680;

a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the Law)

KJV: (which was) commanded(-ment), law, ordinance, precept.

מִצְוָה

n.f — commandment

מִצְוָה 181 n.f. commandment

H6664

צֶדֶקtsedeq/tseh'-dek/

n-m — right, equity, prosperity

Derivation: from 6663;

the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity

KJV: × even, (× that which is altogether) just(-ice), (un-)right(-eous) (cause, -ly, -ness).

צֶ֫דֶק

n.m — rightness

צֶ֫דֶק n.m. rightness, righteousness

1. what is right, just, normal; rightness, justness, of weights and measures

2. righteousness, in government

3. righteousness, justice, in a case or cause

4. rightness, in speech

5. righteousness, as ethically right

6. righteousness, as vindicated, justification in controversy with enemies and troubles, deliverance, victory, prosperity

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