Psalms 83:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ וְיִבָּהֲל֥וּ עֲדֵי־עַ֗ד וְֽיַחְפְּר֥וּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

yēḇōšû weyibbāhălû ʿădê-ʿad weyaḥperû weyōʾḇēdû

Grammar Details

*yēḇōšû*: 3mp Qal imperfect - they will be ashamed
*weyibbāhălû*: conjunction + 3mp Niphal imperfect - and they will be dismayed
*ʿădê-ʿad*: preposition + noun - forever/until eternity
*weyaḥperû*: conjunction + 3mp Qal imperfect - and they will be disgraced
*weyōʾḇēdû*: conjunction + 3mp Qal imperfect - and they will perish

Word Meanings

*bôš*: be ashamed/disappointed/confounded
*bāhal*: be dismayed/terrified/panic
*ʿădê-ʿad*: forever/perpetually/eternally
*ḥāp̄ēr*: be ashamed/disgraced/confounded
*ʾāḇad*: perish/be destroyed/be lost

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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

Exod 6:3 : 3 and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, as God Almighty; but by my name Jehovah I was not known to them.
Ps 59:13 : 13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {H5542}
Ps 9:16 : 16 Jehovah hath made himself known, he hath executed judgment: The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. {H1902} Selah}
Isa 42:8 : 8 I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.
Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make thy horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass; and thou shalt beat in pieces many peoples: and I will devote their gain unto Jehovah, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.
Ps 97:9 : 9 For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods.

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9For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods.
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60that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none else.
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3From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same Jehovah's name is to be praised.
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5Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens; [Let] thy glory [be] above all the earth.
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16Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
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