Psalms 88:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? Or thy faithfulness in Destruction?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלַמֵּתִ֥ים תַּעֲשֶׂה־פֶּ֑לֶא אִם־רְ֝פָאִ֗ים יָק֤וּמוּ ׀ יוֹד֬וּךָ סֶּֽלָה׃

Transliteration

To-the-mētîm taʿăśeh-peleʾ if-rəpāʾîm yāqûmû yôdûkā selâ

Grammar Details

*mētîm*: noun, masculine, plural - dead ones
*taʿăśeh*: verb, Qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you will do/make
*peleʾ*: noun, masculine, singular - wonder/miracle
*rəpāʾîm*: noun, masculine, plural - shades/departed spirits/dead
*yāqûmû*: verb, Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will arise/stand
*yôdûkā*: verb, Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - they will praise you
*selâ*: musical notation or liturgical direction

Word Meanings

*mētîm*: dead ones/dead people/corpses
*peleʾ*: wonder/miracle/marvelous thing
*rəpāʾîm*: shades/departed spirits/ghosts/the dead
*yāqûmû*: they will arise/stand/rise up
*yôdûkā*: they will praise you/thank you/acknowledge you

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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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Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 21:30 : 30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
Job 26:6 : 6 Sheol is naked before [God], And Abaddon hath no covering.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; But I will trust in thee.
Ps 73:18 : 18 Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
Prov 15:11 : 11 Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah: How much more then the hearts of the children of men!
Matt 7:13 : 13 Enter ye in by the narrow gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many are they that enter in thereby.
Rom 9:22 : 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
2 Pet 2:1 : 1 But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction.

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