KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 118:19–20
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Psalms 118:19
19Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, and I will praise the Lord:
19Open to mee the gates of righteousnesse: I will goe into them, and I will praise the LORD:
Psalms 118:20
20This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.
20This gate of the LORD: into which the righteous shall enter.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 118:19
Unclosed, uncovered, or manifest; as a verb, to uncover, reveal, or explain.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
righteousness
The state or character of being righteous; justice, uprightness, or conformity to what is right.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Approval, honour, or commendation expressed in words or song; also to commend, extol, or glorify.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 118:20
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Just, right, or conforming to God's law and judgment; equitable or upright; as a noun, a person characterized as righteous.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go or come in; to penetrate; to become an ingredient or constituent part; to enter the mind.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
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From verse 19
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Open the full verse study2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
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Open the full verse study14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
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Open the full verse study4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
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Open the full verse study13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:
14That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
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Open the full verse study20The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.
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Open the full verse study22Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord?
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Open the full verse study18I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,
19In the courts of the Lord’s house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.
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Open the full verse study13I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
14Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
15I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah.
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Open the full verse study2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
From verse 20
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Open the full verse study24And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
25And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
26And they shall bring the glory and honour of the nations into it.
27And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.
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Open the full verse study2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth the truth may enter in.
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Open the full verse study7Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Open the full verse study8And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for those: the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
9No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
10And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
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Open the full verse study3Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
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Open the full verse study9Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Open the full verse study14Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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