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The worksמַעֲשֵׂיof his hands areיָדָיוtruthאֱמֶתand justice;וּמִשְׁפָּטfaithful areנֶאֱמָנִיםallכָּלhis precepts,פִּקּוּדָיו
Psalms 111:7
Study it in the app“The works of his hands are truth and justice; faithful are all his precepts,”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 111:7, word by word
- The worksמַעֲשֵׂיmaase
work
What someone does: his works, and especially what God does.
Where else “maase” appears- of his hands areיָדָיyaday
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yaday” appears- truthאֱמֶתemet
truth
What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.
Where else “emet” appears- and justiceמִשְׁפָּטmishpat
justice
What is right and fair.
Where else “mishpat” appears- faithful areנֶאֱמָנִיםneemanim
be firm
To be dependable, steady, never failing.
Where else “neemanim” appears- his preceptsפִּקּוּדָיpikuday
precepts
Precepts: what God has charged people to keep. It is used only in the plural and almost only in the Psalms.
Where else “pikuday” appears
The context
6The power of his works he has declared to his people, to give them the inheritance of the nations.
7 · This verse (above)
8upheld forever and ever, done in truth and uprightness.