Psalms 122:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whither the tribes go up, even the tribes of Jehovah, [For] an ordinance for Israel, To give thanks unto the name of Jehovah.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֶׁשָּׁ֨ם עָל֪וּ שְׁבָטִ֡ים שִׁבְטֵי־יָ֭הּ עֵד֣וּת לְיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְ֝הֹד֗וֹת לְשֵׁ֣ם יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

That there alu shevatim, shivtei-Yah, edut l'Yisrael, to l'hodot l'shem YHWH.

Grammar Details

*alu*: qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they went up/ascended
*shevatim*: noun, masculine plural - tribes
*shivtei-Yah*: noun, masculine plural construct + divine name - tribes of YAH
*edut*: noun, feminine singular construct - testimony/witness
*l'Yisrael*: preposition + proper noun - for/to Israel
*l'hodot*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - to give thanks
*l'shem*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - to the name of
*YHWH*: divine name - LORD

Word Meanings

*alu*: went up/ascended/made pilgrimage
*edut*: testimony/witness/evidence/ordinance
*hodot*: give thanks/praise/confess

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Deut 16:16 : 16 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before Jehovah thy God in the place which he shall choose: in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles; and they shall not appear before Jehovah empty:
Exod 23:17 : 17 Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the Lord Jehovah.
Exod 26:33-34 : 33 And thou shalt hang up the veil under the clasps, and shalt bring in thither within the veil the ark of the testimony: and the veil shall separate unto you between the holy place and the most holy. 34 And thou shalt put the mercy-seat upon the ark of the testimony in the most holy place.
Exod 32:15 : 15 And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, with the two tables of the testimony in his hand; tables that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other were they written.
Exod 34:23-24 : 23 Three times in the year shall all thy males appear before the Lord Jehovah, the God of Israel. 24 For I will cast out nations before thee, and enlarge thy borders: neither shall any man desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before Jehovah thy God three times in the year.
Deut 12:5 : 5 But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;
Deut 12:11 : 11 then it shall come to pass that to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto Jehovah.
Ps 66:13-16 : 13 I will come into thy house with burnt-offerings; I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my lips uttered, And my mouth spake, when I was in distress. 15 I will offer unto thee burnt-offerings of fatlings, With the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. {H5542} 16 Come, and hear, all ye that fear God, And I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
Ps 78:68 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
Ps 107:1-3 : 1 O give thanks unto Jehovah; For he is good; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever. 2 Let the redeemed of Jehovah say [so], Whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the adversary, 3 And gathered out of the lands, From the east and from the west, From the north and from the south.
Ps 116:17-19 : 17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of Jehovah. 18 I will pay my vows unto Jehovah, Yea, in the presence of all his people, 19 In the courts of Jehovah's house, In the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye Jehovah.
Ps 118:19 : 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will enter into them, I will give thanks unto Jehovah.
Ps 132:13 : 13 For Jehovah hath chosen Zion; He hath desired it for his habitation.
Exod 16:34 : 34 As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.

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