Psalms 71:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be thou to me a rock of habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: Thou hast given commandment to save me; For thou art my rock and my fortress.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֱיֵ֤ה לִ֨י ׀ לְצ֥וּר מָע֡וֹן לָב֗וֹא תָּמִ֗יד צִוִּ֥יתָ לְהוֹשִׁיעֵ֑נִי כִּֽי־סַלְעִ֖י וּמְצוּדָתִ֣י אָֽתָּה׃

Transliteration

hĕyēh to me to ṣûr māʿôn to lābôʾ tāmîd ṣiwwîtā to ləhôšîʿēnî for-salʿî ûməṣûdātî ʾāttāh

Grammar Details

*hĕyēh*: qal imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - 'be'
*ṣûr*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'rock of'
*māʿôn*: noun, masculine singular - 'dwelling/habitation'
*lābôʾ*: qal infinitive construct with preposition - 'to come/enter'
*tāmîd*: adverb - 'continually/always'
*ṣiwwîtā*: piel perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - 'you have commanded'
*ləhôšîʿēnî*: hiphil infinitive construct with preposition and 1st person singular suffix - 'to save me'
*salʿî*: noun with 1st person singular suffix - 'my rock'
*ûməṣûdātî*: noun with conjunction and 1st person singular suffix - 'and my fortress'
*ʾāttāh*: 2nd person masculine singular independent pronoun - 'you'

Word Meanings

*ṣûr*: rock/cliff/boulder
*māʿôn*: dwelling/habitation/refuge
*lābôʾ*: to come/to enter/to go
*tāmîd*: continually/always/regularly
*ṣiwwîtā*: commanded/ordained/decreed
*salʿî*: my rock/my cliff/my stronghold
*məṣûdātî*: my fortress/my stronghold/my castle

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:2 : 2 Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; My God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.
Ps 31:2-3 : 2 Bow down thine ear unto me; Deliver me speedily: Be thou to me a strong rock, A house of defence to save me. 3 For thou art my rock and my fortress; Therefore for thy name's sake lead me and guide me.
Ps 44:4 : 4 Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
Ps 68:28 : 28 Thy God hath commanded thy strength: Strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.
Ps 90:1 : 1 A Prayer of Moses the man of God. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place In all generations.
Ps 91:1-2 : 1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of Jehovah, He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in whom I trust.
Ps 91:9 : 9 For thou, O Jehovah, art my refuge! Thou hast made the Most High thy habitation;
Ps 91:11-12 : 11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Ps 144:2 : 2 My lovingkindness, and my fortress, My high tower, and my deliverer; My shield, and he in whom I take refuge; Who subdueth my people under me.
Prov 18:10 : 10 The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; The righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
Isa 33:16 : 16 He shall dwell on high; his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks; his bread shall be given [him]; his waters shall be sure.
Ezek 9:6 : 6 slay utterly the old man, the young man and the virgin, and little children and women; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark: and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the old men that were before the house.
Rev 7:2-3 : 2 And I saw another angel ascend from the sunrising, {G2246} having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a great voice to the four angels to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3 saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till {G3739} we shall have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.
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.
Deut 33:27 : 27 The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said, Destroy.

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