וּ֝פִ֗י (ū·p̄î) in Psalms 51:15: Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
וּ֝פִ֗י (ū·p̄î) in Psalms 51:15
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:15 links the English rendering "and my mouth" with the Hebrew surface in the source row, Strong's H6310, and the morphology tag Conj-w | N-msc | 1cs.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form links the speaker's mouth to the psalm's movement from confession and cleansing to renewed praise: God opens, and the mouth declares.
How To Communicate It
When teaching Psalm 51:15, use this form to show how the grammar connects petition and praise: the speaker asks God to open his lips, and his mouth will declare God's praise.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not treat the waw as a complete explanation of the verse's logic by itself.
- Do not make the first-person suffix turn the psalm into private expression detached from praise before God.
- Do not treat grammatical gender as a theological gender claim.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for every use of H6310.
- 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
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Conjunctive waw
First person common singular
Masculine
Singular
Construct
This form carries the BSB rendering "and my mouth" within Psalms 51:15. Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The speaker's promised declaration of praise in Psalm 51:15
The plea for the Lord to open the speaker's lips
The waw coordinates the mouth phrase with the preceding plea, and the first-person suffix identifies the speaker's mouth as the instrument of renewed praise.
The form does not by itself create a theology of worship, confession, or renewal; Psalm 51 supplies the movement from mercy to praise.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form participates in Psalm 51's shift from confession and cleansing to renewed praise.
Conjunctive waw with suffixed noun in a praise clause. identifies the speaker's mouth as the one that will declare praise. Attached to the declaration of praise in Psalm 51:15. Governed by the plea for the Lord to open the speaker's lips. The conjunction links the phrase to the prior petition, while the suffix makes the praise personal.
What will declare God's praise after the plea? The speaker's own mouth will declare God's praise.
Direct: The conjunctive waw and first-person suffix directly support the English phrase "and my mouth."
The conjunction connects the mouth phrase to the plea, but the psalm's sentence supplies the full movement from request to praise. The first-person suffix is personal without making the verse merely private; the mouth declares God's praise.
Waw alone proves the logic of renewed worship: The conjunction links phrases, but Psalm 51 supplies the petition-to-praise movement. first-person suffix makes praise self-centered: The suffix identifies the speaker's mouth, while the verse directs praise to God.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:15 links the English rendering "and my mouth" with the Hebrew surface in the source row, Strong's H6310, and the morphology tag Conj-w | N-msc | 1cs.
H6310 is represented here by the lemma for mouth. This guide is limited to the occurrence rendered "and my mouth" in Psalm 51:15.
The conjunctive waw connects the mouth phrase to the plea for opened lips, and the first-person suffix makes the promised praise personal. The form supports the movement from forgiven confession to public praise.
Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
The form fits Scripture's pattern that restored sinners praise God by his mercy rather than by self-generated worthiness.
When teaching Psalm 51:15, use this form to show how the grammar connects petition and praise: the speaker asks God to open his lips, and his mouth will declare God's praise.
Do not use the waw, suffix, or mouth noun alone to define worship. The form identifies the personal mouth phrase inside the psalm's renewed-praise movement.