Psalms 66:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Who holdeth our soul in life, And suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַשָּׂ֣ם נַ֭פְשֵׁנוּ בַּֽחַיִּ֑ים וְלֹֽא־נָתַ֖ן לַמּ֣וֹט רַגְלֵֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

The one śām napšēnû in the ḥayyîm and not-nātan to the môṭ raglēnû

Grammar Details

*śām*: verb qal participle masculine singular - placing/putting
*napšēnû*: noun feminine singular + 1st person plural suffix - our soul/life
*ḥayyîm*: noun masculine plural - life/living
*nātan*: verb qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - give/put/set
*môṭ*: noun masculine singular - tottering/slipping
*raglēnû*: noun feminine dual + 1st person plural suffix - our feet

Word Meanings

*śām*: placing/putting/establishing
*napšēnû*: our soul/life/self/being
*ḥayyîm*: life/living/alive
*nātan*: gave/put/placed/allowed
*môṭ*: tottering/slipping/being moved
*raglēnû*: our feet

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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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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Ps 121:3 : 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Ps 125:3 : 3 For the sceptre of wickedness shall not rest upon the lot of the righteous; That the righteous put not forth their hands unto iniquity.
Acts 17:28 : 28 for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain even of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Col 3:3-4 : 3 For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, [who is] our life, shall be manifested, then shall ye also with him be manifested in glory.
1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
Ps 22:29 : 29 All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship: All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he that cannot keep his soul alive.
Ps 62:2 : 2 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be greatly moved.
Ps 62:6 : 6 He only is my rock and my salvation: [He is] my high tower; I shall not be moved.
Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
Ps 112:6 : 6 For he shall never be moved; The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.
Ps 37:23-24 : 23 A man's goings are established of Jehovah; And he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.

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