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Psalms 119:101 — King James Version← Study notes

I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.


Psalms 119:101Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 119:1018 words
HebrewMeaning
מִ/כָּלmikāl
from everypronH3605
) · altogether · any · enough ···
אֹ֣רַחʾōraḥ
pathnounH734
path · race · rank · traveller ···
רָ֭עrāʿ
eviladjH7451
affliction · bad · calamity · displease ···
כָּלִ֣אתִיkāliʾtiy
I have restrainedverbH3607
forbid · keep · refrain · restrain ···
רַגְלָ֑/יragəlāy
feet mynounH7272
be able to endure · according as · after · coming ···
לְ֝מַ֗עַןləmaʿan
so thatpronH4616
to the end that · for (to · ... 's sake) · lest ···
אֶשְׁמֹ֥רʾešəmōr
I may keepverbH8104
be circumspect · take heed · keep(-er · self) ···
דְּבָרֶֽ/ךָdəbārekā
word yournounH1697
advice · affair · answer · any such ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 119:101

1. From its commencement, dearly beloved, does this great Psalm exhort us unto bliss, which there is no one who desires not....And therefore this is the lesson which he teaches, who says, “Blessed are those that are undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord” Psalm 118:1. As much as to say, I know what you wish, you are seeking bliss: if then you would be blessed, be undefiled. For the former all desire, the latter fear: yet without it what all wish cannot be…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 119 (Aleph)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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