Psalm 19:9
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָרֵא
yârêʼ
to fear; morally, to revere; caus. to frighten
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
טָהוֹר
ṭâhôwr
pure (in a physical, chemical, ceremonial or moral sense)
עָמַד
ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
עוֹלָם
ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (...
מִשְׁפָּט
mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind...
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
אֶמֶת
ʼemeth
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
חָרַשׁ
chârash
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad ...
Key Terms in This Verse
עָמַד ʻâmad
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
Study H5975 →חָרַשׁ chârash
to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be sil...
Study H2790 →מִשְׁפָּט mishpâṭ
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the pla...
Study H4941 →עוֹלָם ʻôwlâm
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
Study H5769 →Cross References
Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.
Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth.
Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD.
He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.
And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me:...
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
Yea, in the way of thy judgments, O LORD, have we waited for thee; the desire of our soul is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee.
Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
For true and righteous are his judgments: for he hath judged the great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.
But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.
But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the peop...
I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments.
He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me.
At midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because of thy righteous judgments.
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house,...
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