Psalms 63:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

When I remember thee upon my bed, [And] meditate on thee in the night-watches.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּמ֤וֹ חֵ֣לֶב וָ֭דֶשֶׁן תִּשְׂבַּ֣ע נַפְשִׁ֑י וְשִׂפְתֵ֥י רְ֝נָנ֗וֹת יְהַלֶּל־פִּֽי׃

Transliteration

Like ḥēleb and dešen tiśbaʿ napšî and śiptê rənānōt yəhallel-pî

Grammar Details

*kəmō*: preposition - like/as
*ḥēleb*: noun, masculine singular - fat
*wādešen*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and marrow/abundance
*tiśbaʿ*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd feminine singular - will be satisfied
*napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul
*wəśiptê*: conjunction + noun, feminine dual construct - and lips of
*rənānōt*: noun, feminine plural - joyful songs/rejoicing
*yəhallel-pî*: verb, Piel imperfect, 3rd masculine singular + noun with 1st person singular suffix - will praise my mouth

Word Meanings

*ḥēleb*: fat/richest part
*dešen*: fatness/abundance/richness
*tiśbaʿ*: will be satisfied/will be filled
*rənānōt*: joyful songs/shouts of joy/jubilant lips

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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

Ps 42:8 : 8 [ Yet] Jehovah will command his lovingkindness in the day-time; And in the night his song shall be with me, [Even] a prayer unto the God of my life.
Ps 77:4-6 : 4 Thou holdest mine eyes watching: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search.
Ps 119:55 : 55 I have remembered thy name, O Jehovah, in the night, And have observed thy law.
Ps 119:147-148 : 147 I anticipated the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy words. 148 Mine eyes anticipated the night-watches, That I might meditate on thy word.
Ps 139:17-18 : 17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! How great is the sum of them! 18 If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: When I awake, I am still with thee.
Ps 149:5 : 5 Let the saints exult in glory: Let them sing for joy upon their beds.
Song 3:1-2 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. 2 [ I said], I will rise now, and go about the city; In the streets and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Song 5:2 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

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