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Look,הִנֵּהI have longedתָּאַבְתִּיfor your precepts;לְפִקֻּדֶיךָin your righteousnessבְּצִדְקָתְךָgive me life.חַיֵּנִי
Psalms 119:40
Study it in the app“Look, I have longed for your precepts; in your righteousness give me life.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:40, word by word
- I have longedתָּאַבְתִּיtaavti
long for
To long for, to desire strongly.
Where else “taavti” appears- for your preceptsפִקֻּדֶיfikude
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- in your righteousnessצִדְקָתְtsidkat
righteous deeds
Doing what is just, upright deeds.
Where else “tsidkat” appears- give me lifeחַיֵּchaye
keep alive
To make someone go on living, or rescue them from death.
Where else “chaye” appears
The context
39Turn away my reproach that I dread, for your rules are good.
40 · This verse (above)
41And let your acts of loyal love come to me, YHWH, your salvation according to your saying.