Psalms 68:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

A mountain of God is the mountain of Bashan; A high mountain is the mountain of Bashan.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בְּפָ֘רֵ֤שׂ שַׁדַּ֓י מְלָ֘כִ֤ים בָּ֗הּ תַּשְׁלֵ֥ג בְּצַלְמֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

bə-pārēś šadday məlākîm bāh tašlēg bə-ṣalmôn

Grammar Details

*bə-pārēś*: preposition בְּ (when) + Piel infinitive construct - 'when scattered'
*šadday*: divine name - 'Almighty'
*məlākîm*: masculine plural noun - 'kings'
*bāh*: preposition בְּ (in) with 3rd feminine singular suffix - 'in it'
*tašlēg*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd feminine singular - 'it became snow-white'
*bə-ṣalmôn*: preposition בְּ (in) + proper noun - 'in Zalmon'

Word Meanings

*pārēś*: scattered/spread/dispersed
*šadday*: Almighty/the Almighty One
*tašlēg*: became snow-white/snowed/turned white like snow
*ṣalmôn*: Zalmon/dark mountain/dark place

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 3:10 : 10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet I have set my king Upon my holy hill of Zion.
Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like the heights, Like the earth which he hath established for ever.
Ps 87:1-2 : 1 A Psalm of the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains. 2 Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Isa 2:2-3 : 2 And it shall come to pass in the latter days, that the mountain of Jehovah's house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 3 And many peoples shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of Jehovah, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.
Mic 7:14 : 14 Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

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