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I rememberedזָכַרְתִּיin the nightבַלַּיְלָהyour name,שִׁמְךָYHWH,יְהוָהand I keptוָאֶשְׁמְרָהyour instruction.תּוֹרָתֶךָ
Psalms 119:55
Study it in the app“I remembered in the night your name, YHWH, and I kept your instruction.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 119:55, word by word
- I rememberedזָכַרְתִּיzacharti
remember
To bring something to mind and keep it present so as to act on it.
Where else “zacharti” appears- in the nightלַּיְלָהlayla
night
Night.
Where else “layla” appears- your nameשִׁמְshim
name of YHWH
YHWH's name: himself, as he makes himself known.
Where else “shim” appears- YHWHיְהוָהyehva
YHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appears- and I keptאֶשְׁמְרָeshmra
keep
To obey the covenant or the commands.
Where else “eshmra” appears- your instructionתּוֹרָתֶtorate
teaching of YHWH
What YHWH teaches his people so they may live.
Where else “torate” appears
The context
54Your statutes have been songs to me in the house of my pilgrimages.
55 · This verse (above)
56This has been mine, that your precepts I have guarded.