Psalms 122:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Jerusalem, that art builded As a city that is compact together;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְרוּשָׁלַ֥͏ִם הַבְּנוּיָ֑ה כְּ֝עִ֗יר שֶׁחֻבְּרָה־לָּ֥הּ יַחְדָּֽו׃

Transliteration

Yerushalayim ha-benuya like ir she-chubberah-lah yachdav.

Grammar Details

• *Yerushalayim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *ha-benuya*: definite article + qal passive participle, feminine singular - the built/that is built
• *ir*: noun, feminine singular with prefixed preposition kaph - like a city
• *she-chubberah*: relative pronoun + pual perfect, 3rd person feminine singular - that is joined/compact
• *lah*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - to itself
• *yachdav*: adverb - together/at once

Word Meanings

• *ha-benuya*: the built one/the well-constructed one
• *chubberah*: joined/bound/compact/connected
• *yachdav*: together/unitedly/as one

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 5:9 : 9 And David dwelt in the stronghold, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.
• Neh 4:6 : 6 So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto half [the height] thereof: for the people had a mind to work.
• Ps 147:2 : 2 Jehovah doth build up Jerusalem; He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
• Eph 2:20-21 : 20 being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone; 21 in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;
• Eph 4:4-7 : 4 [ There is] one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism, 6 one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in {G5213} all. 7 But unto each one of us was the grace given according to the measure of the gift of Christ.
• Rev 21:10-27 : 10 And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the {G3173} holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, 11 having the glory of God: {G2532} her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal: 12 {G5037} having a wall great and high; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written thereon, which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: 13 on the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. 14 And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. 15 And he that spake with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, and the gates thereof, and the wall thereof. 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length thereof is as great as {G2532} the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, {G1909} twelve thousand furlongs: the length and the breadth and the height thereof are equal. 17 And he measured the wall thereof, a hundred and forty and four cubits, [according to] the measure of a man, that is, of an angel. 18 And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass. 19 {G2532} The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald; 20 the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprase; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst. 21 And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one of the several gates was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. 22 And I saw no temple therein: {G1722} for the Lord God the Almighty, and the Lamb, are the temple thereof. 23 And the city hath no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine upon it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp thereof [is] the Lamb. 24 And the nations {G4982} shall walk amidst the light thereof: and the kings of the earth bring their glory {G2532} {G5092} into it. 25 And the gates thereof shall in no wise be shut by day (for there shall be no night there): 26 and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it: 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.