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The sumרֹאשׁof your wordדְּבָרְךָis truth,אֱמֶתand foreverוּלְעוֹלָםis everyכָּלruleמִשְׁפַּטof your righteousness.צִדְקֶךָ
Psalms 119:160
Study it in the app“The sum of your word is truth, and forever is every rule of your righteousness.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:160, word by word
- The sumרֹאשׁrosh
total
The total: "take the head" is to count.
Where else “rosh” appears- of your wordדְּבָרְdevar
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appears- is truthאֱמֶתemet
truth
What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.
Where else “emet” appears- and foreverעוֹלָםolam
forever
Time without end, beyond what a lifetime can see.
Where else “olam” appears- ruleמִשְׁפַּטmishpat
rule
Each of the rules the law gives for concrete cases of life.
Where else “mishpat” appears- of your righteousnessצִדְקֶtsidke
righteousness
Living uprightly before God.
Where else “tsidke” appears
The context
159See that I love your precepts; YHWH, according to your loyal love give me life.
160 · This verse (above)
161Princes have pursued me without cause, but of your words my heart stands in dread.