Psalm 40:8
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חָפֵץ
châphêts
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
תּוֹרָה
tôwrâh
a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
תָּוֶךְ
tâvek
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Key Terms in This Verse
חָפֵץ châphêts
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
Study H2654 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.
I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.
Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellors.
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God...
Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the h...
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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