Psalms 139:17
King James Version
7 Jun 2026
“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!”
מָה
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
יָקַר
they are precious
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יָקַר
To be precious, to be valued highly. Yaqar. You are precious in my sight and honoured and I love you. God places the highest value on every person He created.
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עָצַם
they are vast
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עָצַם
to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; to crunch the bones
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רֹאשׁ
sums/ their
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רֹאשׁ
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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רֵעַ
thoughts/ your
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רֵעַ
a thought (as association of ideas)
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