דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ (də·rā·ḵe·ḵā) in Psalms 51:13: Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ (də·rā·ḵe·ḵā) in Psalms 51:13
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:13 links the English rendering "Your ways" with דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ, Strong's H1870, and the morphology tag N-cpc | 2ms.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The construct noun with suffix identifies what the restored speaker promises to teach: God's ways, addressed to God in the psalm.
How To Communicate It
Use the form to ask what the speaker will teach after restoration. The grammar points to Your ways, with God as the direct addressee of the psalm.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not draw theology from grammatical gender, number, or state apart from the verse.
- Do not treat the construct relationship as a complete interpretation of the passage.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for the whole Hebrew lemma.
- Do not treat the attached suffix as a full theology of the participant; let the verse identify the relationship.
- Do not use the grammar profile as a shortcut around the wording and logic of the verse.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Noun
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular
Second person masculine singular
Common
Plural
Construct
This form carries the BSB rendering "Your ways" within Psalms 51:13. Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The phrase rendered "Your ways" in Psalms 51:13
The construct noun with second masculine singular suffix stands as what the restored speaker intends to teach transgressors.
It identifies the content of the promised teaching: God's ways, addressed directly to God in the psalm.
The form does not by itself define every use of H1870, settle a full doctrine of instruction, or detach "ways" from Psalm 51's restoration context.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The construct noun with suffix identifies the object of the promised teaching in Psalm 51:13.
Plural construct noun with second-person suffix. identifies the ways as belonging to God, the one addressed in the psalm. Attached to the content taught to transgressors. Governed by the speaker's promise to teach in Psalms 51:13. The suffix supplies the Your relation and should be read with God as the addressee.
What will the restored speaker teach? He promises to teach God's ways to transgressors.
Direct: The construct form with suffix directly supports the English phrase Your ways.
The construct and suffix identify relation, but Psalm 51 supplies the restoration context for the teaching. The second-person suffix points to God as addressee; it should not be isolated from the prayer.
Construct state proves a full doctrine of instruction: The form identifies the phrase relation; Psalm 51 supplies the theology of restoration and teaching.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:13 links the English rendering "Your ways" with דְּרָכֶ֑יךָ, Strong's H1870, and the morphology tag N-cpc | 2ms.
H1870 is represented here by the lemma דֶּרֶךְ. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "Your ways" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
Noun - common plural construct | second person masculine singular functions as a construct phrase in Psalms 51:13. The suffix points to God as the one addressed, so the teaching concerns God's ways.
Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
The form fits Scripture's language of confession, mercy, cleansing, restored joy, and renewed obedience.
When teaching Psalms 51:13, use this form to show that restored testimony is not self-expression alone. The speaker teaches transgressors God's ways.
Do not make the construct phrase alone define all divine instruction or a full word study of H1870. The form clarifies what is taught in this verse.