Psalms 95:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The sea is his, and he made it; And his hands formed the dry land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁר־ל֣וֹ הַ֭יָּם וְה֣וּא עָשָׂ֑הוּ וְ֝יַבֶּ֗שֶׁת יָדָ֥יו יָצָֽרוּ

Transliteration

ʾăšer-to-him the-yām and-he ʿāśāhû and-yabešet his-yādāyw yāṣārû

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun with prefixed preposition lamed and 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to whom/whose
*yām*: masculine singular noun with definite article - the sea
*ʿāśāhû*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular, qal with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - he made it
*yabešet*: feminine singular noun - dry land
*yādāyw*: feminine dual noun with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his hands
*yāṣārû*: perfect, 3rd person common plural, qal - they formed

Word Meanings

*ʾăšer*: who/which/that
*yām*: sea/ocean
*ʿāśāhû*: made it/created it/produced it
*yabešet*: dry land/continent
*yādāyw*: his hands/his power
*yāṣārû*: formed/fashioned/shaped

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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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Referenced Verses

Gen 1:9-9 : 9 And God said, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Job 38:10-11 : 10 And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
Ps 33:7 : 7 He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: He layeth up the deeps in store-houses.
Ps 146:6 : 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that in them is; Who keepeth truth for ever;
Prov 8:26 : 26 While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
Prov 8:29 : 29 When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
Jonah 1:9 : 9 And he said unto them, I am a Hebrew; and I fear Jehovah, the God of heaven, who hath made the sea and the dry land.

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