Psalms 90:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י אֶ֪לֶף שָׁנִ֡ים בְּֽעֵינֶ֗יךָ כְּי֣וֹם אֶ֭תְמוֹל כִּ֣י יַעֲבֹ֑ר וְאַשְׁמוּרָ֥ה בַלָּֽיְלָה׃

Transliteration

For ʾelep̄ šānîm in ʿênêḵā like yôm ʾeṯmôl when it yaʿăḇōr, and ʾašmûrâ in lāylâ.

Grammar Details

*kî*: conjunction - when/for
*ʾelep̄*: masculine singular - thousand
*šānîm*: feminine plural - years
*bĕʿênêḵā*: preposition + feminine dual + 2nd masculine singular suffix - in your eyes
*kĕyôm*: preposition + masculine singular - like day
*ʾeṯmôl*: adverb - yesterday
*yaʿăḇōr*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - passes/passes away
*wĕʾašmûrâ*: conjunction + feminine singular - and watch/night watch
*ballāylâ*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the night

Word Meanings

*ʾelep̄ šānîm*: thousand years/millennium
*ʿênêḵā*: your eyes/your sight/your perspective
*ʾeṯmôl*: yesterday/recent past
*yaʿăḇōr*: passes/passes away/has passed
*ʾašmûrâ*: watch/night watch/period of night guard duty (about 4 hours)
*lāylâ*: night/darkness

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But {G0} forget {G5209} not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Matt 14:25 : 25 And in the fourth watch of the night he came unto them, walking upon the sea.
Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
Luke 12:38 : 38 And if he shall come in the second watch, and if in the third, {G5438} and find them so, blessed are those servants.
Judg 7:19 : 19 So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outermost part of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch, when they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake in pieces the pitchers that were in their hands.

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