Psalms 141:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let my prayer be ordered before you like a sweet smell; and let the lifting up of my hands be like the evening offering.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּכּ֤וֹן תְּפִלָּתִ֣י קְטֹ֣רֶת לְפָנֶ֑יךָ מַֽשְׂאַ֥ת כַּ֝פַּ֗י מִנְחַת־עָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

Tikkôn təpillātî [my prayer] qəṭōret before-you; maś'at kappay [lifting of my hands] minḥat-'āreb [evening offering].

Grammar Details

• *Tikkôn*: verb, niphal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular jussive - may it be established
• *təpillātî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my prayer
• *qəṭōret*: noun, feminine singular construct - incense/smoke offering
• *maś'at*: noun, feminine singular construct - lifting/raising
• *kappay*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my hands/palms
• *minḥat*: noun, feminine singular construct - offering/gift/tribute
• *'āreb*: noun, masculine singular - evening

Word Meanings

• *Tikkôn*: may it be established/may it be directed/let it be set
• *qəṭōret*: incense/smoke offering
• *maś'at*: lifting/raising/elevation
• *minḥat*: grain offering/gift/tribute

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.
• Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the four and twenty rulers went down on their faces before the Lamb, having every one an instrument of music, and gold vessels full of perfumes, which are the prayers of the saints.
• Rev 8:3-4 : 3 And another angel came and took his place at the altar, having a gold vessel for burning perfume; and there was given to him much perfume, so that he might put it with the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar which was before the high seat. 4 And the smoke of the perfume, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel's hand.
• Exod 29:39 : 39 One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:
• 1 Kgs 18:36 : 36 Then at the time of the offering, Elijah the prophet came near and said, O Lord, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, let it be seen this day that you are God in Israel, and that I am your servant, and that I have done all these things by your order.
• Ps 5:3 : 3 My voice will come to you in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I send my prayer to you, and keep watch.
• Ps 28:2 : 2 Give ear to the voice of my prayer, when I am crying to you, when my hands are lifted up to your holy place.
• Ps 134:2 : 2 Give praise to the Lord, lifting up your hands in his holy place.
• Prov 15:8 : 8 The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.
• Dan 9:21 : 21 Even while I was still in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at first when my weariness was great, put his hand on me about the time of the evening offering.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For, from the coming up of the sun till its going down, my name is great among the Gentiles; and in every place the smell of burning flesh is offered to my name, and a clean offering: for my name is great among the Gentiles, says the Lord of armies.
• Luke 1:9-9 : 9 And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes. 10 And all the people were offering prayers outside, at the time of the burning of perfumes.
• Acts 3:1 : 1 Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;
• Ps 63:4 : 4 So will I go on blessing you all my life, lifting up my hands in your name.
• Ezra 9:4 : 4 Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.
• Exod 29:41-42 : 41 And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord. 42 This is to be a regular burned offering made from generation to generation, at the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord, where I will come face to face with you and have talk with you.
• Exod 30:7-9 : 7 And on this altar sweet spices are to be burned by Aaron every morning when he sees to the lights. 8 And every evening, when he puts the lights up in their places, the spices are to be burned, a sweet-smelling smoke going up before the Lord from generation to generation for ever. 9 No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.
• Exod 30:34-38 : 34 And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights; 35 And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy. 36 And put some of it, crushed very small, in front of the ark in the Tent of meeting, where I will come face to face with you; it is to be most holy. 37 You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord. 38 Whoever makes any like it, for its sweet smell, will be cut off from his people.
• Lev 10:1-2 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took their vessels and put fire in them and perfume, burning strange fire before the Lord, which he had not given them orders to do. 2 And fire came out from before the Lord, burning them up and causing their destruction before the Lord.
• Lev 16:11-13 : 11 And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself and take away sin from himself and his house, and put to death the ox of the sin-offering which is for himself. 12 And he is to take a vessel full of burning coal from the altar before the Lord and in his hand some sweet perfume crushed small, and take it inside the veil; 13 And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.
• Num 16:35 : 35 Then fire came out from the Lord, burning up the two hundred and fifty men who were offering the perfume.
• Num 16:46-48 : 46 And Moses said to Aaron, Take your vessel and put in it fire from the altar, and sweet spices, and take it quickly into the meeting of the people, and make them free from sin: for wrath has gone out from the Lord, and the disease is starting. 47 And at the words of Moses, Aaron took his vessel, and went running among the people; and even then the disease had made a start among them; and he put spices in his vessel to take away the sin of the people. 48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.