Psalms 78:35

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And they remembered that God was their rock, And the Most High God their redeemer.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַֽ֭יִּזְכְּרוּ כִּֽי־אֱלֹהִ֣ים צוּרָ֑ם וְאֵ֥ל עֶ֝לְיוֹן גֹּאֲלָֽם׃

Transliteration

wə-yizkərû that-ʾĕlōhîm ṣûrām and-ʾēl ʿelyōn gōʾălām

Grammar Details

• *wə-yizkərû*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine plural with waw consecutive - and they remembered
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun - God
• *ṣûrām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their rock
• *ʾēl*: masculine singular noun - God/deity
• *ʿelyōn*: masculine singular adjective - high/most high
• *gōʾălām*: Qal participle masculine singular with 3rd masculine plural suffix - their redeemer

Word Meanings

• *ṣûrām*: their rock/their stronghold/their refuge
• *ʿelyōn*: Most High/highest
• *gōʾălām*: their redeemer/their kinsman-redeemer

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:4 : 4 The Rock, his work is perfect; For all his ways are justice: A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, Just and right is he.
• Exod 15:13 : 13 Thou in thy lovingkindness hast led the people that thou hast redeemed: Thou hast guided them in thy strength to thy holy habitation.
• Isa 41:14 : 14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith Jehovah, and thy Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.
• Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
• Deut 32:30-31 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Except their Rock had sold them, And Jehovah had delivered them up? 31 For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.
• Ps 74:2 : 2 Remember thy congregation, which thou hast gotten of old, Which thou hast redeemed to be the tribe of thine inheritance; [And] mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
• Ps 78:7 : 7 That they might set their hope in God, And not forget the works of God, But keep his commandments,
• Ps 78:11 : 11 And they forgat his doings, And his wondrous works that he had showed them.
• Ps 78:42 : 42 They remember not his hand, Nor the day when he redeemed them from the adversary;
• Ps 106:13 : 13 They soon forgat his works; They waited not for his counsel,
• Ps 106:21 : 21 They forgat God their Saviour, Who had done great things in Egypt,
• Isa 44:6 : 6 Thus saith Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of hosts: I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no God.
• Isa 48:17 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am Jehovah thy God, who teacheth thee to profit, who leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.
• Isa 63:8-9 : 8 For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour. 9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.
• Deut 7:8 : 8 but because Jehovah loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which he sware unto your fathers, hath Jehovah brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
• Deut 9:26 : 26 And I prayed unto Jehovah, and said, O Lord Jehovah, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, that thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, that thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
• Deut 15:15 : 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to-day.
• Exod 6:6 : 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am Jehovah, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm, and with great judgments: