Psalms 24:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

This is the generation of them that seek after him, That seek thy face, [even] Jacob. {H5542}

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זֶ֭ה דּ֣וֹר *דרשו **דֹּרְשָׁ֑יו מְבַקְשֵׁ֨י פָנֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֣ב סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

This dôr dōrĕšāyw, mĕbaqqĕšê pānêkā Yaʿăqōb selâ.

Grammar Details

• זֶה: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *dôr*: noun, masculine singular - generation
• *dōrĕšāyw*: participle, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his seekers
• *mĕbaqqĕšê*: participle, masculine plural construct - seekers of
• *pānêkā*: noun, masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your face
• *Yaʿăqōb*: proper noun - Jacob
• *selâ*: unknown term - Selah (musical direction)

Word Meanings

• *dôr*: generation/age/period
• *dōrĕšāyw*: his seekers/those who seek him/those who inquire of him
• *mĕbaqqĕšê*: seekers of/those who seek/those who search for
• *pānêkā*: your face/your presence
• *Yaʿăqōb*: Jacob/Israel (as a people)
• *selâ*: musical pause/interlude/lift up

Referenced Verses

• Ps 27:8 : 8 [ When thou saidst], Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
• Ps 105:4 : 4 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
• 1 Pet 2:9 : 9 But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a {G1519} people for [God's] own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
• Ps 22:30 : 30 A seed shall serve him; It shall be told of the Lord unto the [next] generation.
• Ps 73:15 : 15 If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
• Isa 53:10 : 10 Yet it pleased Jehovah to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of Jehovah shall prosper in his hand.
• John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!
• Rom 4:16 : 16 For this cause [it is] of faith, that [it may be] according to grace; to the end that the promise may be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all