King James Version
Psalms 119:10 in the King James Version says “With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.”
Psalms 119:10 · KJV
I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly.
BETH. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
Blessed art thou, O LORD: teach me thy statutes.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“With my whole heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“have I sought”
H1875properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“thee O let me not wander”
H7686to stray (causatively, mislead), usually (figuratively) to mistake, especially (morally) to transgress; by extension (through the idea of intoxication
“from thy commandments”
H4687a command, whether human or divine (collectively, the law)
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