Psalms 16:10

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י ׀ לֹא־תַעֲזֹ֣ב נַפְשִׁ֣י לִשְׁא֑וֹל לֹֽא־תִתֵּ֥ן חֲ֝סִידְךָ֗ לִרְא֥וֹת שָֽׁחַת׃

Transliteration

Because not-taʿăzōḇ nap̄šî to šəʾôl not-tittēn ḥăsîdḵā to see šāḥat

Grammar Details

• *taʿăzōḇ*: imperfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular - you will abandon/leave
• *nap̄šî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person suffix - my soul/life
• to *šəʾôl*: preposition + noun - to Sheol/the grave
• *tittēn*: imperfect verb, 2nd person masculine singular - you will give/allow
• *ḥăsîdḵā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine suffix - your faithful/godly one
• to see: preposition + infinitive construct - to see/experience
• *šāḥat*: noun, feminine singular - corruption/pit/grave

Word Meanings

• *taʿăzōḇ*: you will abandon/you will leave/you will forsake
• *nap̄šî*: my soul/my life/my being
• *šəʾôl*: Sheol/the grave/the realm of the dead
• *tittēn*: you will give/you will allow/you will permit
• *ḥăsîdḵā*: your faithful one/your godly one/your holy one
• *šāḥat*: corruption/pit/decay/grave

Referenced Verses

• Ps 49:15 : 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol; For he will receive me. {H5542}
• Acts 13:35-38 : 35 Because he saith also in another [psalm], Thou wilt not give Thy Holy One to see corruption. 36 For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption: 37 but he whom God raised up saw no corruption. 38 Be it known unto you therefore, {G435} brethren, that through this man is proclaimed unto you remission of sins:
• Acts 2:27-31 : 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto Hades, Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see corruption. 28 Thou madest known unto me the ways of life; Thou shalt make me full of gladness with thy countenance. 29 {G435} Brethren, I may say unto {G3326} you freely of the patriarch David, that he {G5053} both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us unto this day. 30 Being therefore a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins he would set one upon his throne; 31 he foreseeing [this] spake of the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he {G5590} left unto Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
• Rev 1:18 : 18 and the Living one; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive for evermore, {G0} {G281} and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
• Rev 20:13 : 13 And the sea gave up the dead that were in it; and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
• Acts 3:14-15 : 14 But ye denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted unto you, 15 and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
• 1 Cor 15:42 : 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
• 1 Cor 15:50-55 : 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood {G3756} cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We all {G3303} shall not sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?
• Lev 19:28 : 28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.
• Num 6:6 : 6 All the days that he separateth himself unto Jehovah he shall not come near to a dead body.
• Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
• Job 11:8 : 8 It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; What canst thou know?
• Ps 9:17 : 17 The wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
• Ps 139:8 : 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou art there.
• Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
• Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
• Isa 5:14 : 14 Therefore Sheol hath enlarged its desire, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth among them, descend [into it].
• Isa 14:9 : 9 Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
• Dan 9:24 : 24 Seventy weeks are decreed upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy.
• Amos 9:2 : 2 Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
• Luke 1:35 : 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow thee: wherefore also the holy thing which is begotten shall be called the Son of God.
• Luke 4:34 : 34 Ah! what have we to do with thee, Jesus thou Nazarene? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
• Luke 16:23 : 23 And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.