Psalms 89:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The north and the south, thou hast created them: Tabor and Hermon rejoice in thy name.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְךָ שָׁמַיִם אַף־לְךָ אָרֶץ תֵּבֵל וּמְלֹאָהּ אַתָּה יְסַדְתָּם

Transliteration

To-lᵉkā šāmayim also-to-lᵉkā ʾāreṣ; tēbēl and-mᵉlōʾāh ʾattâ yᵉsadtām

Grammar Details

*lᵉkā*: preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to you/yours
*šāmayim*: noun, masculine dual/plural - heavens
*ʾap-lᵉkā*: conjunction + preposition + 2nd person masculine singular suffix - also to you/yours
*ʾāreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land
*tēbēl*: noun, feminine singular - world/inhabited earth
*û-mᵉlōʾāh*: conjunction + noun + 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and its fullness
*ʾattâ*: pronoun, 2nd person masculine singular - you
*yᵉsadtām*: verb, qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you founded them

Word Meanings

*šāmayim*: heavens/sky
*ʾāreṣ*: earth/land/ground
*tēbēl*: world/inhabited part of earth
*mᵉlōʾāh*: its fullness/that which fills it
*yᵉsadtām*: you founded them/established them

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Josh 12:1 : 1 Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising, {H4217} from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
Josh 19:22 : 22 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.
Job 26:7 : 7 He stretcheth out the north over empty space, And hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Deut 3:8-9 : 8 And we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon; 9 [( which] Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir;)
Judg 4:6 : 6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said unto him, Has not Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw unto mountain Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?
Ps 98:8 : 8 Let the floods clap their hands; Let the hills sing for joy together
Ps 133:3 : 3 Like the dew of Hermon, That cometh down upon the mountains of Zion: For there Jehovah commanded the blessing, Even life for evermore.
Isa 35:1-2 : 1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing; the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon: they shall see the glory of Jehovah, the excellency of our God.
Isa 49:13 : 13 Sing, O heavens; and be joyful, O earth; and break forth into singing, O mountains: for Jehovah hath comforted his people, and will have compassion upon his afflicted.
Isa 55:12-13 : 12 For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields shall clap their hands. 13 Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle-tree: and it shall be to Jehovah for a name, for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Jer 46:18 : 18 As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.
Judg 4:12 : 12 And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mountain Tabor.
Ps 65:12-13 : 12 They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness; And the hills are girded with joy. 13 The pastures are clothed with flocks; The valleys also are covered over with grain; They shout for joy, they also sing.

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