Psalms 63:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

So have I looked upon thee in the sanctuary, To see thy power and thy glory.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֱלֹהִ֤ים ׀ אֵלִ֥י אַתָּ֗ה אֲ‍ֽשַׁחֲ֫רֶ֥ךָּ צָמְאָ֬ה לְךָ֨ ׀ נַפְשִׁ֗י כָּמַ֣הּ לְךָ֣ בְשָׂרִ֑י בְּאֶֽרֶץ־צִיָּ֖ה וְעָיֵ֣ף בְּלִי־מָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

ʾĔlōhim ʾēlî ʾattāh ʾăšaḥărekkā ṣāmʾāh to you napšî kāmahh to you bəśārî in ʾereṣ-ṣiyyāh wəʿāyēp without māyim

Grammar Details

*ʾĔlōhim*: noun, masculine plural - God (intensive plural)
*ʾēlî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - my God
*ʾattāh*: personal pronoun, 2nd masculine singular - you
*ʾăšaḥărekkā*: verb, Piel imperfect, 1st singular with 2nd masculine singular suffix - I seek you earnestly
*ṣāmʾāh*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd feminine singular - thirsts
*napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*kāmahh*: verb, Qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - longs/yearns
*bəśārî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my flesh
*ʾereṣ-ṣiyyāh*: construct phrase - land of drought/dry land
*wəʿāyēp*: conjunction + adjective, masculine singular - and weary/faint
*bəlî-māyim*: preposition + negative particle + noun - without water

Word Meanings

*ʾăšaḥărekkā*: seek you earnestly/look for you early/diligently search for you
*ṣāmʾāh*: thirsts/is parched
*kāmahh*: yearns/longs/pines
*napšî*: my soul/life/being/self
*ʾereṣ-ṣiyyāh*: dry land/parched land/desert

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.
Ps 105:4 : 4 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
1 Chr 16:11 : 11 Seek ye Jehovah and his strength; Seek his face evermore.
Ps 78:61 : 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, And his glory into the adversary's hand.
Ps 84:2-9 : 2 My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God. 3 Yea, the sparrow hath found her a house, And the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, Even thine altars, O Jehovah of hosts, My King, and my God. 4 Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: They will be still praising thee. Selah 5 Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; In whose heart are the highways [to Zion]. 6 Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs; Yea, the early rain covereth it with blessings. 7 They go from strength to strength; Every one of them appeareth before God in Zion. 8 O Jehovah God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob. {H5542} 9 Behold, O God our shield, And look upon the face of thine anointed. 10 For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, Than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For Jehovah God is a sun and a shield: Jehovah will give grace and glory; No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Ps 96:6 : 6 Honor and majesty are before him: Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
Exod 33:18-19 : 18 And he said, Show me, I pray thee, thy glory. 19 And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before thee; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.
1 Sam 4:21-22 : 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
Ps 68:24 : 24 They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Ps 73:17-18 : 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Ps 77:13-14 : 13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Who is a great god like unto God? 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples.
Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
Ps 145:11 : 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, And talk of thy power;
Isa 60:13 : 13 The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine, and the box-tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
2 Cor 4:4-6 : 4 in whom the god of this world hath blinded {G1519} the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn [upon them]. 5 For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6 Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

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