Psalms 74:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast made summer and winter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֣ה הִ֭צַּבְתָּ כָּל־גְּבוּל֣וֹת אָ֑רֶץ קַ֥יִץ וָ֝חֹ֗רֶף אַתָּ֥ה יְצַרְתָּם׃

Transliteration

Attah hitsavta kol-gevulot arets, qayits va-choref attah yetsartam.

Grammar Details

*Attah*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - 'you'
*hitsavta*: hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you set/established'
*kol-gevulot*: construct phrase - 'all boundaries of'
*arets*: feminine singular noun - 'earth/land'
*qayits*: masculine singular noun - 'summer'
*va-choref*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - 'and winter'
*yetsartam*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'you formed them'

Word Meanings

*hitsavta*: set/established/fixed
*gevulot*: boundaries/borders/territories
*qayits*: summer/fruit harvest season
*choref*: winter/rainy season
*yetsartam*: formed them/shaped them/created them

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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

Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
Deut 32:8 : 8 When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
Acts 17:26 : 26 and he made of one {G129} every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, having determined [their] appointed seasons, and the bounds of their habitation;
Ps 24:1-2 : 1 A Psalm of David. The earth is Jehovah's, and the fulness thereof; The world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, And established it upon the floods.
Acts 14:17 : 17 And {G2544} yet He left not himself without witness, in that he did good and gave you from heaven rains and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.

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