This is not the literal individual word of any particular language, it's His communication to us, the conveyance of His truth to us.
Word = message, truth, communication, revelation.
For the sake of clarity, here's Diligent's answer to me for context, to show that he is insisting on "individual words":
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Originally Posted by Diligent
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Originally Posted by Connie
God cares a lot more about our understanding and obeying than He does about individual words,
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Chapter and verse, please? What makes you think that the word God has magnified above his very own name is less important to God than your obedience and understanding of it? |
Matthew Henry reads it as I read it:
For thou hast magnified thy word
(thy promise, which is truth) above all thy name. God has
made himself known to us in many ways in creation and providence, but most clearly by his word. The
judgments of his mouth are magnified even above those of his hand, and greater things are done by them. The
wonders of grace exceed the wonders of nature; and what is discovered of God
by revelation is much greater than what is discovered by reason. In what God had done for David his faithfulness to his work appeared more illustriously, and redounded more to his glory, than any other of his attributes.
Some good interpreters understand it of Christ, the essential Word, and of his gospel, which are magnified above all the discoveries God had before made of himself to the fathers. He that magnified the law, and made that honourable, magnifies the gospel much more.