Psalms 103:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּי־ה֭וּא יָדַ֣ע יִצְרֵ֑נוּ זָ֝כ֗וּר כִּי־עָפָ֥ר אֲנָֽחְנוּ׃

Transliteration

For-he yādaʿ yiṣrēnû zākûr that-ʿāpār ʾănāḥnû

Grammar Details

*yādaʿ*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he knows
*yiṣrēnû*: masculine singular noun with 1st person plural suffix - our formation
*zākûr*: qal passive participle masculine singular - remembering/being mindful
*ʿāpār*: masculine singular noun with prefixed conjunction *kî* - that dust
*ʾănāḥnû*: 1st person plural independent pronoun - we

Word Meanings

*yādaʿ*: knows/understands/recognizes/perceives
*yiṣrēnû*: our formation/frame/intention/inclination
*zākûr*: remembering/being mindful/recalling
*ʿāpār*: dust/dry earth/powder/debris
*ʾănāḥnû*: we/us

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
Ps 78:38-39 : 38 But he, being merciful, forgave [their] iniquity, and destroyed [them] not: Yea, many a time turned he his anger away, And did not stir up all his wrath. 39 And he remembered that they were but flesh, A wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
Ps 89:47 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!
Eccl 12:7 : 7 and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.
Isa 29:16 : 16 Ye turn things upside down! Shall the potter be esteemed as clay; that the thing made should say of him that made it, He made me not; or the thing formed say of him that formed it, He hath no understanding?
Job 13:25 : 25 Wilt thou harass a driven leaf? And wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?
Job 7:5-7 : 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.

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