Psalms 61:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He shall abide before God for ever: Oh prepare lovingkindness and truth, that they may preserve him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָמִ֣ים עַל־יְמֵי־מֶ֣לֶךְ תּוֹסִ֑יף שְׁ֝נוֹתָ֗יו כְּמוֹ־דֹ֥ר וָדֹֽר׃

Transliteration

yāmîm upon-yəmê-meleḵ tôsîp šənôtāyw like-dōr wādōr

Grammar Details

• *yāmîm*: noun, masculine, plural - days
• *yəmê-meleḵ*: construct phrase - days of a king
• *tôsîp*: verb, imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will add
• *šənôtāyw*: noun, feminine, plural with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his years
• *dōr wādōr*: idiomatic expression - generation and generation

Word Meanings

• *yāmîm*: days/lifetime
• *tôsîp*: you will add/increase/prolong
• *dōr wādōr*: generation to generation/many generations/throughout generations

Referenced Verses

• Ps 40:11 : 11 Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Jehovah; Let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me.
• Ps 41:12 : 12 And as for me, thou upholdest me in mine integrity, And settest me before thy face for ever.
• Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
• Prov 20:28 : 28 Kindness and truth preserve the king; And his throne is upholden by kindness.
• Isa 9:6-7 : 6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of Jehovah of hosts will perform this.
• Mic 7:20 : 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, [and] the lovingkindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Luke 1:33 : 33 and he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.
• Luke 1:54-55 : 54 He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy 55 (As he spake unto our fathers) Toward Abraham and {G4690} his seed for ever.
• Heb 7:21-25 : 21 (for {G3303} they indeed have been made priests without an oath; but he with an oath by him that saith of him, The Lord sware and will not repent himself, Thou art a priest for ever); 22 by so much also hath Jesus become the surety of a better covenant. 23 And they indeed have been made priests many in number, because that by death they are hindered from continuing: 24 but {G3588} he, because he abideth for ever, hath his priesthood unchangeable. 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
• Ps 43:3 : 3 Oh send out thy light and thy truth; Let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles.
• Gen 24:27 : 27 And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of my master Abraham, who hath not forsaken his lovingkindness and his truth toward my master: as for me, Jehovah hath led me in the way to the house of my master's brethren.
• Gen 32:10 : 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.