Psalms 104:24

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

O Jehovah, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: The earth is full of thy riches.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מָֽה־רַבּ֬וּ מַעֲשֶׂ֨יךָ ׀ יְֽהוָ֗ה כֻּ֭לָּם בְּחָכְמָ֣ה עָשִׂ֑יתָ מָלְאָ֥ה הָ֝אָ֗רֶץ קִנְיָנֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

māh-rabbû maʿaśeykā YHWH kullām bĕḥokmāh ʿāśîtā mālĕʾāh hāʾāreṣ qinyānekā

Grammar Details

• *māh*: interrogative - how
• *rabbû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural - they are many
• *maʿaśeykā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your works
• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *kullām*: noun, masculine singular construct with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - all of them
• *bĕḥokmāh*: preposition *bě* + noun, feminine singular - in wisdom
• *ʿāśîtā*: verb, qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you made
• *mālĕʾāh*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it is full
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + noun, feminine singular - the earth
• *qinyānekā*: noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your possessions

Word Meanings

• *māh*-*rabbû*: how many, how numerous, how abundant
• *maʿaśeykā*: your works, your deeds, your creations
• *kullām*: all of them, every one of them
• *ḥokmāh*: wisdom, skill, expertise
• *ʿāśîtā*: made, did, created, fashioned
• *mālĕʾāh*: is full, is filled, is abundant with
• *hāʾāreṣ*: the earth, the land, the world
• *qinyānekā*: your possessions, your creatures, your acquisitions

Referenced Verses

• Ps 40:5 : 5 Many, O Jehovah my God, are the wonderful works which thou hast done, And thy thoughts which are to us-ward; They cannot be set in order unto thee; If I would declare and speak of them, They are more than can be numbered.
• Jer 10:12 : 12 He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding hath he stretched out the heavens:
• Rom 11:33 : 33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
• Eph 1:8 : 8 which he made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence,
• Eph 3:10 : 10 to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly [places] might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,
• Ps 107:31 : 31 Oh that men would praise Jehovah for his lovingkindness, And for his wonderful works to the children of men!
• Ps 136:5 : 5 To him that by understanding made the heavens; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
• Prov 8:22-36 : 22 Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old. 23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was. 24 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water. 25 Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth; 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world. 27 When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep, 28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong, 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth; 30 Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him, 31 Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men. 32 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways. 33 Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not. 34 Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors. 35 For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah. 36 But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
• Ps 50:10-12 : 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, And the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11 I know all the birds of the mountains; And the wild beasts of the field are mine. 12 If I were hungry, I would not tell thee; For the world is mine, and the fulness thereof.
• Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
• Neh 9:6 : 6 Thou art Jehovah, even thou alone; thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all things that are thereon, the seas and all that is in them, and thou preservest them all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
• Job 5:9 : 9 Who doeth great things and unsearchable, Marvellous things without number:
• Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, The moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Ps 24:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein.
• Ps 65:11 : 11 Thou crownest the year with thy goodness; And thy paths drop fatness.
• Gen 1:11-12 : 11 And God said, Let the earth put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, [and] fruit-trees bearing fruit after their kind, wherein is the seed thereof, upon the earth: and it was so. 12 And the earth brought forth grass, herbs yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, wherein is the seed thereof, after their kind: and God saw that it was good.
• Gen 1:24-25 : 24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so. 25 And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the ground after its kind: and God saw that it was good.
• Prov 3:19-20 : 19 Jehovah by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding he established the heavens. 20 By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.
• 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on {G2198} God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;