King James Version
Psalms 119:99 in the King James Version says “I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 119 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.”
Psalms 119:99 · KJV
MEM. O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. they: Heb. it is ever with me
I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.
I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“than all my teachers”
H3925properly, to goad, i.e., (by implication) to teach (the rod being an middle eastern incentive)
“I have more understanding”
H7919to be (causatively, make or act) circumspect and hence, intelligent
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
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