173
Letתְּהִיyour handיָדְךָbe readyתְּהִיto help me,לְעָזְרֵנִיforכִּיyour preceptsפִקּוּדֶיךָI have chosen.בָחָרְתִּי
Psalms 119:173
Study it in the app“Let your hand be ready to help me, for your precepts I have chosen.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:173, word by word
- Letתְּהִיtehi
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tehi” appears- your handיָדְyad
hand
The part of the body with which one takes, gives and works; also what one does.
Where else “yad” appears- to help meעָזְרֵazre
help
To stand beside someone to give him strength or free him from a bind.
Where else “azre” appears- your preceptsפִקּוּדֶיfikude
precepts
Precepts: what God has charged people to keep. It is used only in the plural and almost only in the Psalms.
Where else “fikude” appears- I have chosenבָחָרְתִּיvacharti
choose
To take one thing and leave the others, because it is preferred.
Where else “vacharti” appears
The context
172Let my tongue sing of your saying, for all your commandments are righteousness.
173 · This verse (above)
174I have longed for your salvation, YHWH, and your instruction is my delight.