Psalms 90:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Let thy work appear unto thy servants, And thy glory upon their children.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֵרָאֶ֣ה אֶל־עֲבָדֶ֣יךָ פָעֳלֶ֑ךָ וַ֝הֲדָרְךָ֗ עַל־בְּנֵיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

Let be yērāʾeh to your ʿăḇāḏêḵā your pāʿŏlêḵā, and your hăḏārĕḵā upon their bĕnêhem.

Grammar Details

*yērāʾeh*: niphal imperfect jussive, 3rd masculine singular - let be seen/appear
*ʾel-ʿăḇāḏêḵā*: preposition + masculine plural + 2nd masculine singular suffix - to your servants
*pāʿŏlêḵā*: masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - your work
*wahăḏārĕḵā*: conjunction + masculine singular + 2nd masculine singular suffix - and your majesty
*ʿal-bĕnêhem*: preposition + masculine plural + 3rd masculine plural suffix - upon their children

Word Meanings

*yērāʾeh*: let be seen/appear/be made visible/be revealed
*ʿăḇāḏêḵā*: your servants/your slaves
*pāʿŏlêḵā*: your work/your deed/your action
*hăḏārĕḵā*: your majesty/your glory/your splendor
*bĕnêhem*: their children/their sons/their descendants

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
Hab 3:2 : 2 O Jehovah, I have heard the report of thee, and am afraid: O Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years; In the midst of the years make it known; In wrath remember mercy.
Ps 77:12 : 12 I will meditate also upon all thy work, And muse on thy doings.
Ps 92:4 : 4 For thou, Jehovah, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
Num 14:15-24 : 15 Now if thou shalt kill this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying, 16 Because Jehovah was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness. 17 And now, I pray thee, let the power of the Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, 18 Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear [the guilty], visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation. 19 Pardon, I pray thee, the iniquity of this people according unto the greatness of thy lovingkindness, and according as thou hast forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now. 20 And Jehovah said, I have pardoned according to thy word: 21 but in very deed, as I live, and as all the earth shall be filled with the glory of Jehovah; 22 because all those men that have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; 23 surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that despised me see it: 24 but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.
Num 14:30-31 : 30 surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. 31 But your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.
Deut 1:39 : 39 Moreover your little ones, that ye said should be a prey, and your children, that this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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.
Josh 4:22-24 : 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over; 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty; that ye may fear Jehovah your God for ever.
Josh 23:14 : 14 And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof.

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