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Psalm 119
(119:1)
‫“ = תָ מִים‬complete, sound” under BDB 1071a. Root ‫ – תמם‬Arb tamma. Ph ‫תם‬. Arm
‫“ תְ מִימָא‬perfect”.
(119:2)
‫“ = נצר‬watch, guard, keep” under BDB 665b. Akk naṣāru “watch over, protect”.
OArm ‫“ נצר‬protect”. Arm ‫נְטַר‬. Arb naẓara “look at, consider, examine”. Sab
‫“ להנצרהמו‬to aid them”.
(119:3)
‫“ = ַע ְולָה‬injustice, unrighteousness, wrong” under BDB 732b.
(119:4)
‫“ = פִקּוּד‬precept” under BDB 824a. Only Psalms? Sense of “thing appointed,
charge”.
(119:5)
‫“ = אַ ְחלָי‬ah that!” under BDB 25ab. Perhaps III ‫ אָח‬+ ‫ = לַי‬Arm ‫לוּ = ְלוַי‬. Very rare.
‫ < יִ כֹּנוּ‬Niphal ‫כון‬. Fairly regular form. *‫יִ כֹּנוּ > יִנְכּוֹנוּ‬.
(119:6)
‫ = נבט‬Hiphil “look, regard, pay attention to” under BDB 613b. Arb nabaṭa “well,
issue forth (of water). Akk nabāṭu “shine”. Sab ‫“ נבט‬protector” PN ‫“ נבטאל‬God has
seen, considered”.
(119:7)
‫ידה < אוֹדְ ָך‬. Why no connecting vowel such as *‫?אוֹדֶ ָךּ‬
‫“ = י ֶֹשׁר‬straightness, uprightness” under BDB 449b.
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‫“ = למד‬exercise in, learn” under BDB 540b. Arm ‫( ְלמַד‬rare) “learn. Akk lamādu
“learn”.
(119:8)
(119:33)
‫“ = ֵעקֶב‬consequence, as a consequence of, because (that), reward, end” under BDB
784b. Arb ʿaqibu(n) “heel, consequences, result”.
(119:34)
‫ = בין‬Hiphil “understand, give understanding, make understand, teach” under BDB
106b. Arb bāna “become separated, be distinct, IV speak perspicuously”. Sab ‫בין‬
“(the) wise”.
(119:35)
‫“ = דרְך‬tread, march”, Hiphil “cause to tread, march, lead” under BDB 202a.
‫“ = נָתִ יב‬path, pathway” under BDB 677a.
(119:36)
‫ < הַט‬Hiphil ‫נטה‬.
‫“ = ֶבצַע‬gain made by violence, unjust gain, profit” under BDB 130b.
(119:37)
‫שׁוְא‬
ָ = “emptiness, vanity” under BDB 996a.
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‫בדרכָך‬
(119:38)
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2 Mss 𝔗 ‫ בִדְ ב ֶָרָך‬cf 25. Which explains NIV.
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(119:39)
‫“ = ח ְֶרפָּה‬reproach” under BDB 357b.
‫“ = יגֹר‬be afraid, fear” under BDB 388b. Ph in PN ‫יגר אשמן‬. Arb wajira “metuens
cavit”. Rare.
(119:40)
‫“ = תאב‬long for”. Arm ‫תְ אַב‬. Very rare. Only Psalm 119?
(119:97)
‫“ = שִׂיחָה‬meditation, complaint, musing, study” under BDB 967a. Rare. Arm ‫שִׂיח‬
“speak”. Arb šāḥa “be eager, diligent”.
(119:98)
(119:99)
‫“ = שׂכל‬be prudent”, Hiphil “look at, give attention to, consider, ponder, give
insight” under BDB 968a. Arm ‫( ְסכַל‬rare) “understand”, Itphael “look (at),
consider”. Akk šiklu “clever”, šiklūtu “cleverness”.
‫“ = עֵדוּת‬testimony” under BDB 730a.
(119:100)
‫ = בין‬Hitpolel “shew oneself attentive, get understanding, shew oneself to have
understanding” under BDB 106b. Arb bāna “become separate, be distinct”, IV
“speak perspicuously”.
‫“ = פִקּוּד‬precept” (thing appointed) under BDB 824a. Rare.
‫“ = נצר‬watch, guard, keep” under BDB 665b. Akk naṣāru “watch over, protect”.
OArm ‫“ נצר‬protect”. Arm ‫נְטַר‬. Arb naḍara “look at, consider, examine”.
(119:101)
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‫“ = כלא‬shut up, restrain, withhold” under BDB 476a. Arm ‫ ְכלָא‬. Akk kālū. Arb
kālaʾa “protect” (Quran 21:43).
(119:102)
‫הוֹרתָ נִי‬
ֵ < ‫ירה‬.
(119:103)
‫ = מלץ‬Niphal “be smooth, slippery” under BDB 576b. Hapax? Arb maliṣa “slip”.
(119:105)
‫“ = נָתִ יב‬path, pathway (as raised)” under BDB 677a. Root ‫ – נתב‬Arb nataba “swell
forth, become prominent, protuberant”.
(119:106)
Note LBH form ‫ ! ָו ֲא ַקיֵּמָה‬Both long waw-consecutive and Piel ‫קיּם‬. See Wright,
Linguistic Evidence for the Pre-Exilic Date of the Yahwistic Source, 22-26, 32-34
et passim.
(119:107)
‫ = ענה‬Niphal “make answer; be answered, receive answer” under BDB 773ab.
OArm ‫ענה‬. Arb ʿanā “intend (by saying)”.
‫ = ענה‬III “be bowed down, afflicted”, Niphal “humble oneself, be afflicted” under
BDB 776a. Akk enû “thwart, frustrate, do violence to”. Arb ʿanā (w) “be lowly,
submissive”.
(119:108)
‫“ = נְדָ בָה‬voluntariness, freewill-offering” under BDB 621b.
(119:109)
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‫ְב ַכפִּי‬
(119:110)
‫“ = פַח‬bird-trap” under BDB 809a. Root ‫ – פחח‬meaning dubious.
‫“ = תעה‬err, wander about” under BDB 1073a. Arm ‫תְ עָא‬.
(119:111)
‫( = נחל‬denominative) “get or take as a possession” under BDB 635b.3
‫“ = שָׂשׂוֹן‬exultation, rejoicing” under BDB 965a. Root ‫ – שׂישׂ שׂושׂ‬from interjection
such as Arb šāʾšāʾ.
(119:120)
‫“ = ֵעקֶב‬consequence, usually as adverbial accusative, as a consequence of, because
(that), also reward, end” under BDB 784b.
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“Septuagint (R, L, 1219), Syriac, Latin all have 2ms suffix so ‘in your hand’”.
“Probably read ‫‘ נַ ֲחלָתִ י‬my inheritance’ see Hieronymus”.