Psalms 95:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

O come, let us give worship, falling down on our knees before the Lord our Maker.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בֹּ֭אוּ נִשְׁתַּחֲוֶ֣ה וְנִכְרָ֑עָה נִ֝בְרְכָ֗ה לִֽפְנֵי־יְהוָ֥ה עֹשֵֽׂנוּ

Transliteration

bōʾû ništaḥăweh and-nikrāʿâ nibrĕkâ before-YHWH ʿōśēnû

Grammar Details

• *bōʾû*: imperative, masculine plural, qal - come
• *ništaḥăweh*: imperfect, 1st person plural, hishtaphel - let us worship/bow down
• *nikrāʿâ*: cohortative, 1st person plural, qal - let us kneel
• *nibrĕkâ*: cohortative, 1st person plural, qal - let us bless/kneel
• *YHWH*: proper name with prefixed compound preposition lipnê - before YHWH
• *ʿōśēnû*: masculine singular participle, qal with 1st person plural suffix - our maker

Word Meanings

• *bōʾû*: come/enter/go
• *ništaḥăweh*: worship/bow down/prostrate
• *nikrāʿâ*: kneel/bow down
• *nibrĕkâ*: bless/kneel/praise
• *ʿōśēnû*: our maker/our creator

Referenced Verses

• Ps 100:3 : 3 Be certain that the Lord is God; it is he who has made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep to whom he gives food.
• 2 Chr 6:13 : 13 (For Solomon had made a brass stage, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the middle of the open space; on this he took his place and went down on his knees before all the meeting of Israel, stretching out his hands to heaven.)
• Dan 6:10 : 10 For this reason King Darius put his name on the writing and the order.
• Phil 2:10 : 10 So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,
• Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
• Ps 95:1 : 1 O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
• Eph 3:14 : 14 For this cause I go down on my knees before the Father,
• Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel have joy in his maker; let the children of Zion be glad in their King.
• Eccl 12:1 : 1 Let your mind be turned to your Maker in the days of your strength, while the evil days come not, and the years are far away when you will say, I have no pleasure in them;
• Isa 17:7 : 7 In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; the Lord of armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is he who takes up your cause; he will be named the God of all the earth.
• Ezra 9:5 : 5 And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,
• Job 35:10 : 10 But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;
• Ps 72:9 : 9 Let those who are against him go down before him; and let his haters be low in the dust.
• Hos 6:1 : 1 Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.
• Hos 8:14 : 14 For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.
• Matt 4:2 : 2 And after going without food for forty days and forty nights, he was in need of it.
• Matt 4:9 : 9 And he said to him, All these things will I give you, if you will go down on your face and give me worship.
• Mark 14:35 : 35 And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.
• Luke 22:41 : 41 And he went a little distance away from them and, falling on his knees in prayer, he said,
• John 1:3 : 3 All things came into existence through him, and without him nothing was.
• Acts 7:60 : 60 And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.
• Acts 10:25-26 : 25 And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship. 26 But Peter, lifting him up, said, Get up, for I am a man as you are.
• Acts 20:36 : 36 And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.
• Acts 21:5 : 5 And when these days came to an end, we went on our journey; and they all, with their wives and children, came with us on our way till we were out of the town: and after going on our knees in prayer by the sea,
• 1 Cor 6:20 : 20 For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.
• 1 Kgs 8:54 : 54 Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;
• 1 Pet 4:19 : 19 For this reason let those who by the purpose of God undergo punishment, keep on in well-doing and put their souls into the safe hands of their Maker.
• Rev 22:8 : 8 And I, John, am he who saw these things and to whose ears they came. And when I had seen and given ear, I went down on my face to give worship at the feet of the angel who made these things clear to me.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who gives ear, say, Come. And let him who is in need come; and let everyone desiring it take of the water of life freely.