Exodus 15:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נָחִ֥יתָ בְחַסְדְּךָ֖ עַם־ז֣וּ גָּאָ֑לְתָּ נֵהַ֥לְתָּ בְעָזְּךָ֖ אֶל־נְוֵ֥ה קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃

Transliteration

nāḥîtā ḇəḥasdəḵā ʿam-zū gāʾāltā nēhaltā ḇəʿāzzəḵā ʾel-nəwēh qāḏšeḵā

Grammar Details

*nāḥîtā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you led
*ḇəḥasdəḵā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - in your steadfast love
*ʿam*: noun, masculine singular construct - people of
*zū*: demonstrative pronoun - this
*gāʾāltā*: qal perfect 2nd masculine singular - you redeemed
*nēhaltā*: piel perfect 2nd masculine singular - you guided
*ḇəʿāzzəḵā*: preposition + noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - in your strength
*ʾel*: preposition - to
*nəwēh*: noun, masculine singular construct - dwelling place of
*qāḏšeḵā*: noun, masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your holiness

Word Meanings

*ḥesed*: steadfast love/lovingkindness/mercy
*gāʾāltā*: you redeemed/you ransomed
*nēhaltā*: you guided/you led/you conducted
*nəwēh qāḏšeḵā*: your holy habitation/your holy dwelling/your holy abode

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 77:20 : 20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Ps 78:52-54 : 52 But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock. 53 And he led them safely, so that they feared not; But the sea overwhelmed their enemies. 54 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.
Ps 80:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim Eduth. A Psalm of Asaph. Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that sittest [above] the cherubim, shine forth.
Ps 106:9 : 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
Isa 63:12-13 : 12 that caused his glorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses? that divided the waters before them, to make himself an everlasting name? 13 that led them through the depths, as a horse in the wilderness, so that they stumbled not?
Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
Eph 2:4 : 4 but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Gen 19:16 : 16 But he lingered; and the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters, Jehovah being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city.
Neh 9:12 : 12 Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.
Ps 77:14-15 : 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples. 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. {H5542}

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