Psalms 9:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Put them in fear, O Jehovah: Let the nations know themselves to be but men. {Selah}

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קוּמָ֣ה יְ֭הוָה אַל־יָעֹ֣ז אֱנ֑וֹשׁ יִשָּׁפְט֥וּ ג֝וֹיִ֗ם עַל־פָּנֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

Qûm YHWH, let not 'āzaz 'ĕnôš; let be šāpaṭ gôyim before your pānîm

Grammar Details

*qûm*: qal imperative masculine singular - 'arise'
*YHWH*: divine name - 'LORD'
*'āzaz*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular jussive - 'let prevail'
*'ĕnôš*: masculine singular noun - 'man/mankind'
*šāpaṭ*: niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'let them be judged'
*gôyim*: masculine plural noun - 'nations'
*pānîm*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your face/presence'

Word Meanings

*qûm*: arise/stand up/take action
*'āzaz*: prevail/be strong/triumph
*'ĕnôš*: man/mortal/mankind/humanity
*šāpaṭ*: judged/adjudicated/brought to justice
*gôyim*: nations/gentiles/peoples
*pānîm*: face/presence/sight/before

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 31:3 : 3 Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit: and when Jehovah shall stretch out his hand, both he that helpeth shall stumble, and he that is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Jer 32:40 : 40 and I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from following them, to do them good; and I will put my fear in their hearts, that they may not depart from me.
Ezek 28:2 : 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God;—
Ezek 28:9 : 9 Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth you.
Ezek 30:13 : 13 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also destroy the idols, and I will cause the images to cease from Memphis; and there shall be no more a prince from the land of Egypt: and I will put a fear in the land of Egypt.
Acts 12:22-23 : 22 And the people shouted, [saying], The voice of a god, and not of a man. 23 And immediately an angel of the Lord smote him, because {G3739} he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
Exod 15:16 : 16 Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.
Exod 23:27 : 27 I will send my terror before thee, and will discomfit all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.
Deut 2:25 : 25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
Ps 62:9 : 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: In the balances they will go up; They are together lighter than vanity.
Ps 76:12 : 12 He will cut off the spirit of princes: He is terrible to the kings of the earth.
Ps 82:6-7 : 6 I said, Ye are gods, And all of you sons of the Most High. 7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.

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