Psalms 68:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רָא֣וּ הֲלִיכוֹתֶ֣יךָ אֱלֹהִ֑ים הֲלִ֘יכ֤וֹת אֵלִ֖י מַלְכִּ֣י בַקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃

Transliteration

rāʾû hălîkôtekā ʾĕlōhîm hălîkôt ʾēlî malkî ba-qōdeš

Grammar Details

*rāʾû*: Qal perfect 3rd common plural - 'they saw'
*hălîkôtekā*: feminine plural noun with 2nd masculine singular possessive suffix - 'your processions'
*ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with singular meaning - 'God'
*hălîkôt*: feminine plural construct noun - 'processions of'
*ʾēlî*: masculine singular noun with 1st common singular possessive suffix - 'my God'
*malkî*: masculine singular noun with 1st common singular possessive suffix - 'my King'
*ba-qōdeš*: preposition בְּ (in) + definite article + masculine singular noun - 'in the sanctuary'

Word Meanings

*hălîkôt*: processions/goings/ways
*qōdeš*: sanctuary/holy place/holiness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Judg 11:34 : 34 And Jephthah came to Mizpah unto his house; and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
Exod 15:20 : 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
1 Chr 13:8 : 8 And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Ps 87:7 : 7 They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.
Ps 148:12-13 : 12 Both young men and virgins; Old men and children: 13 Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For his name alone is exalted; His glory is above the earth and the heavens.
Ps 150:3-5 : 3 Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe. 5 Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.
Jer 31:4 : 4 Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Jer 31:13 : 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
Rev 14:2-3 : 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and the voice which I heard [was] as [the voice] of harpers harping with their harps: 3 and they sing as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures and the elders: and no man could learn the song save the hundred and forty and four thousand, [even] they that had been purchased out of the earth.
Rev 15:2-3 : 2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire; and them that come off victorious from the beast, and from his image, and from the number of his name, standing by the sea of glass, having harps of God. 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages.
1 Sam 18:6 : 6 And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 68:24
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24They have seen thy goings, O God, Even the goings of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.
Job 21:12
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12They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
1 Chr 13:8
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8And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Ps 81:2
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2Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
Ps 150:3-5
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3Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp.
4Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
5Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.
Ps 149:3
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3Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp.
1 Chr 15:16
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16And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren the singers, with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.
1 Sam 18:6
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6And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with timbrels, with joy, and with instruments of music.
Exod 15:20
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20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Ps 68:7
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7O God, when thou wentest forth before thy people, When thou didst march through the wilderness; {H5542}
Ps 68:26
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2 Sam 6:5
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5And David and all the house of Israel played before Jehovah with all manner of [instruments made of] fir-wood, {H6086} and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with castanets, and with cymbals.
Neh 12:46
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46For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
2 Chr 20:28
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28And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of Jehovah.
Ps 98:5-6
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5Sing praises unto Jehovah with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody.
6With trumpets and sound of cornet Make a joyful noise before the King, Jehovah.
1 Chr 15:28
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28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with psalteries and harps.
2 Chr 29:26
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26And the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
Ps 92:3
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Ps 68:32
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32Sing unto God, ye kingdoms of the earth; Oh sing praises unto the Lord; {H5542}
1 Chr 16:5
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5Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, with psalteries and with harps; and Asaph with cymbals, sounding aloud;
2 Chr 7:6
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6And the priests stood, according to their offices; the Levites also with instruments of music of Jehovah, which David the king had made to give thanks unto Jehovah, (for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever,) when David praised by their ministry: and the priests sounded trumpets before them; and all Israel stood.
2 Chr 5:12
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1 Chr 6:32
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32And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they waited on their office according to their order.
1 Chr 25:1
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1 Chr 16:42
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1 Chr 15:19-20
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19So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] with cymbals of brass to sound aloud;
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1 Chr 25:6-7
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6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the order of the king.
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1 Chr 23:5
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Ps 33:2-3
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Ps 68:4
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Judg 5:11
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2 Chr 20:21
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21And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed them that should sing unto Jehovah, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks unto Jehovah; for his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever.
Isa 30:29
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29Ye shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come unto the mountain of Jehovah, to the Rock of Israel.
2 Chr 35:15
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15And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king's seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.
Ps 100:2
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2Serve Jehovah with gladness: Come before his presence with singing.
2 Sam 6:15
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Ps 47:6
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Ezra 2:65
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Ps 43:4
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4Then will I go unto the altar of God, Unto God my exceeding joy; And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.