Psalms 121:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jehovah will keep thee from all evil; He will keep thy soul.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה יִשְׁמָרְךָ֥ מִכָּל־רָ֑ע יִ֝שְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת־נַפְשֶֽׁךָ

Transliteration

YHWH yišmārkā from all-rāʿ; yišmōr ʾet-your napšekā.

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: proper noun, divine name
• *yišmārkā*: imperfect Qal, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he will keep you
• *mikkāl-rāʿ*: preposition min with noun, masculine singular - from all evil
• *yišmōr*: imperfect Qal, 3rd person masculine singular - he will keep/guard
• *ʾet-napšekā*: direct object marker with noun, feminine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your soul/life

Word Meanings

• *yišmārkā*: will keep you/will guard you/will protect you
• *rāʿ*: evil/harm/calamity/distress
• *yišmōr*: will keep/will guard/will protect
• *napšekā*: your soul/your life/your self/your being

Referenced Verses

• Ps 41:2 : 2 Jehovah will preserve him, and keep him alive, And he shall be blessed upon the earth; And deliver not thou him unto the will of his enemies.
• Ps 91:9-9 : 9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation; 10 There shall no evil befall thee, Neither shall any plague come nigh thy tent. 11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
• 2 Tim 4:18 : 18 {G2532} The Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and will save me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom [be] the glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 97:10 : 10 O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Prov 12:21 : 21 There shall no mischief happen to the righteous; But the wicked shall be filled with evil.
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil [one].
• Rom 8:28 : 28 And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, [even] to them that are called according to [his] purpose.
• Ps 145:20 : 20 Jehovah preserveth all them that love him; But all the wicked will he destroy.
• Job 5:19-27 : 19 He will deliver thee in six troubles; Yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he will redeem thee from death; And in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; Neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth. 23 For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field; And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee. 24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing. 25 Thou shalt know also that thy seed shall be great, And thine offspring as the grass of the earth. 26 Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season. 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; Hear it, and know thou it for thy good.
• Ps 34:22 : 22 Jehovah redeemeth the soul of his servants; And none of them that take refuge in him shall be condemned.
• Rom 8:35-39 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.