עֲוֺ֖נֹתַ֣י (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯay) in Psalms 51:9: Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
עֲוֺ֖נֹתַ֣י (‘ă·wō·nō·ṯay) in Psalms 51:9
Source Word
At Psalms 51:9, the Psalms 51:9 source token עֲוֺ֖נֹתַ֣י is H5771, N-cpc | 1cs. The H5771 Psalms 51:9 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
My iniquities directly represents the plural noun and its first-person suffix in the cleansing petition. The psalmist owns his twisted guilt without qualification and asks God to remove it as part of the inward renewal sought in the next verse.
How To Communicate It
Notice the movement from sins to my iniquities and then to a clean heart, keeping personal ownership and divine cleansing in the same prayer.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn the plural into a numerical inventory, and do not use grammatical possession to imply that guilt can be removed apart from God's mercy.
- The plural may gather many expressions of guilt without specifying a count or chronological list.
- Read my iniquities within Psalms 51:9 as the H5771 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Noun
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
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Common
Plural
Construct
First person Common Singular
This nominal expression has no aspect; the imperative supplies the requested action of erasure.
The construct plural receives the suffix my, forming a definite personal object for the surrounding cleansing request.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The imperative blot out as the complete set of guilt the psalmist asks God to remove
The paired petitions that God hide His face from sins and erase iniquities before creating a clean heart
The common plural construct noun carries a first common singular suffix, making the iniquities explicitly the speaker's and placing them as the object of blot out.
Plural number does not permit an exact count of offenses, and the suffix does not shift responsibility to another person or community.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The psalmist owns his twisted guilt without qualification and asks God to remove it as part of the inward renewal sought in the next verse.
The construct plural receives the suffix my, forming a definite personal object for the surrounding cleansing request.. The common plural construct noun carries a first common singular suffix, making the iniquities explicitly the speaker's and placing them as the object of blot out.. Attached to the imperative blot out as the complete set of guilt the psalmist asks God to remove. Governed by the paired petitions that God hide His face from sins and erase iniquities before creating a clean heart. Plural number does not permit an exact count of offenses, and the suffix does not shift responsibility to another person or community.
What does the first singular suffix add to iniquities in Psalm 51:9? It makes the confession personal: these are my iniquities, and they are the object the speaker asks God to blot out.
Direct: My iniquities directly represents the plural noun and its first-person suffix in the cleansing petition.
The plural may gather many expressions of guilt without specifying a count or chronological list. Blot out uses erasure imagery, while the neighboring petitions explain its moral and relational setting.
Plural proves a countable list: Number marks plurality but does not reveal how many offenses the psalmist has in view. possessive means permanent ownership: The suffix identifies confessed guilt precisely in a prayer asking God to remove it. morphology replaces literary context: The H5771 form clarifies the my iniquities relation in Psalms 51:9; the surrounding passage establishes its scope.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Psalms 51:9, the Psalms 51:9 source token עֲוֺ֖נֹתַ֣י is H5771, N-cpc | 1cs. The H5771 Psalms 51:9 BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
עָוֺן is the lemma behind my iniquities here. Within Psalms 51:9, H5771 retains this exact lexical identity.
The construct plural receives the suffix my, forming a definite personal object for the surrounding cleansing request.
The psalmist owns his twisted guilt without qualification and asks God to remove it as part of the inward renewal sought in the next verse.
Psalm 51 joins honest personal confession to confidence in God's cleansing mercy and creative renewal.
Notice the movement from sins to my iniquities and then to a clean heart, keeping personal ownership and divine cleansing in the same prayer.
Do not turn the plural into a numerical inventory, and do not use grammatical possession to imply that guilt can be removed apart from God's mercy.