KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 119:28–32
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Psalms 119:28
28My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.
28My soule †melteth for heauines: strengthen thou me according vnto thy word.
- Heb. droppeth.
Psalms 119:29
29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
29Remoue from mee the way of lying: and grant me thy Law graciously.
Psalms 119:30
30I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.
30I haue chosen the way of trueth: thy iudgements haue I laid before me.
Psalms 119:31
31I have stuck unto thy testimonies: O Lord, put me not to shame.
31I haue stucke vnto thy Testimonies: O LORD put me not to shame.
Psalms 119:32
32I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
32I will runne the way of thy Commandements: when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:28
To make or become liquid or dissolved; to waste or lose substance; figuratively, to lose courage or strength.
Meaning drawn from: Approved KJV word-family definition · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Sadness; sorrow; dejection of mind; depression of spirits.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
strengthen
To make stronger, confirm, encourage, fortify, or increase in power.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Agreeing or corresponding; in conformity with; as stated, measured, or directed by.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A spoken or written expression; a saying, message, command, promise, account, or matter.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 119:29
To take or put away in any manner; to cause to leave a person or thing; to banish or destroy. To cause to change place; to put from its place in any manner.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To give, bestow, allow, or confer, especially in answer to a request.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
graciously
Kindly, favourably, mercifully, or with gracious regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Psalms 119:30
Selected, preferred, or appointed from among others.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
That which is true; conformity to fact, reality, faithfulness, or God's revealed word, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Placed, set down, imposed, or arranged.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:31
Thrust, pierced, or fixed into something or in a position.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
testimonies
Witnesses, records, declarations, or divine commands that bear witness.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
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
To place, set, lay, appoint, bring into a condition, or cause to be, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
A painful sense of guilt, disgrace, or dishonor; as a verb, to make ashamed or bring disgrace upon.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 119:32
To move swiftly on foot; to flow, spread, proceed, continue, or carry out a course.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
commandments
Authoritative commands, laws, or precepts; especially commands given by God, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To make greater or wider; also to set at liberty or give room.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · Skeat 1893
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
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From verse 28
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Open the full verse study13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Open the full verse study10But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
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Open the full verse study14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
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Open the full verse study14Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
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Open the full verse study29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
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Open the full verse study12And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and down in his name, saith the Lord.
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Open the full verse study26They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
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Open the full verse study11The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.
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Open the full verse study16That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;
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Open the full verse study31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Open the full verse study11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the Lord your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
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Open the full verse study24And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
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Open the full verse study2Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
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Open the full verse study25Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
From verse 29
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Open the full verse study4He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
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Open the full verse study8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
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Open the full verse study8Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:
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Open the full verse study10For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
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Open the full verse study37Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
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Open the full verse study22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
25Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
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Open the full verse study15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
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Open the full verse study19O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Open the full verse study8They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
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Open the full verse study163I hate and abhor lying: but thy law do I love.
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Open the full verse study5O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes!
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Open the full verse study3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.
4Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
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Open the full verse study20He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
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Open the full verse study104Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.
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Open the full verse study128Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and I hate every false way.
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Open the full verse study33But 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, and they shall be my people.
34And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
From verse 30
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Open the full verse study19And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
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Open the full verse study29For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the Lord:
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Open the full verse study29Remove from me the way of lying: and grant me thy law graciously.
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Open the full verse study42But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
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Open the full verse study2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
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Open the full verse study15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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Open the full verse study4I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.
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Open the full verse study18¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
19And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
20And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and upon thy gates:
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Open the full verse study111Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.
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Open the full verse study24Thy testimonies also are my delight and my counsellers.
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Open the full verse study45And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
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Open the full verse study173Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study52I remembered thy judgments of old, O Lord; and have comforted myself.
From verse 31
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Open the full verse study31Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
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Open the full verse study23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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Open the full verse study5And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.
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Open the full verse study23Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord.
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Open the full verse study17But Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
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Open the full verse study28And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
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Open the full verse study2O my God, I trust in thee: let me not be ashamed, let not mine enemies triumph over me.
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Open the full verse study20O keep my soul, and deliver me: let me not be ashamed; for I put my trust in thee.
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Open the full verse study20Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
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Open the full verse study22¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;
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Open the full verse study4But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.
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Open the full verse study23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
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Open the full verse study18Let them be confounded that persecute me, but let not me be confounded: let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed: bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.
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Open the full verse study115Depart from me, ye evildoers: for I will keep the commandments of my God.
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Open the full verse study48My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
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Open the full verse study6Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.
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Open the full verse study80Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
From verse 32
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Open the full verse study29¶ And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
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Open the full verse study17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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Open the full verse study1WHEREFORE seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Open the full verse study32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
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Open the full verse study36If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
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Open the full verse study36Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
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Open the full verse study1THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
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Open the full verse study45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study24Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.
25And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
26I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:
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Open the full verse study16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
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Open the full verse study11O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
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Open the full verse study74That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.
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Open the full verse study15He delivereth the poor in his affliction, and openeth their ears in oppression.
16Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
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Open the full verse study5Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.
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Open the full verse study31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Open the full verse study4Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.
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