Psalms 47:5

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The Lorde ascendeth in a triumph: and God with the sounde of a trumpet.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִבְחַר־לָ֥נוּ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֵ֑נוּ אֶ֥ת גְּא֨וֹן יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֲשֶׁר־אָהֵ֣ב סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

He yibḥar-for us 'et-naḥălātēnû 'et gĕ'ôn ya'ăqōb which he 'āhēb selâ

Grammar Details

• *yibḥar*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will choose'
• *lānû*: preposition + 1st person plural suffix - 'for us'
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *naḥălātēnû*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person plural suffix - 'our inheritance'
• *gĕ'ôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'pride/excellency of'
• *ya'ăqōb*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Jacob'
• *'ăšer*: relative pronoun - 'which/whom'
• *'āhēb*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he loved'
• *selâ*: musical notation

Word Meanings

• *yibḥar*: choose/select/elect
• *naḥălâ*: inheritance/heritage/possession
• *gĕ'ôn*: pride/excellency/majesty/glory
• *'āhēb*: loved/delighted in
• *selâ*: musical interlude/pause/lift up (meaning uncertain)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 68:33 : 33 Who rydeth vpon the most hyghest eternall heauens: lo he sendeth out a mightie voyce in his voyce.
• Ps 150:3 : 3 Prayse ye hym in the sounde of a trumpet: prayse ye hym vpon a Lute and an Harpe.
• 2 Sam 6:15 : 15 So Dauid and all the house of Israel brought the arke of the Lorde with showting and trumpet blowing.
• Ps 24:7-9 : 7 Lyft vp your heades O ye gates, and be ye lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores and the kyng of glorie shall enter in. 8 Who is this kyng of glorie? it is God both strong & mightie, it is God mightie in battayle. 9 Lyft vp your heades (O ye gates) and be you lyft vp ye euerlastyng doores: and the kyng of glorie shall enter in. 10 Who is this kyng of glorie? euen the God of hostes, he is the kyng of glorie. Selah.
• Ps 68:17-19 : 17 The charettes of the Lorde are twentie thousande, euen thousandes of angels: and the Lorde is among them in holy Sinai. 18 Thou wenst vp on high, thou hast led captiuitie captiue, thou hast receaued gyftes for men: yea euen for those that be disobedient, that God the Lorde myght dwell among them, 19 Blessed be the Lorde who day by day powreth his benefites vpon vs: and is God of our saluation. Selah.
• Ps 68:24-25 : 24 They do well see O Lorde thy goynges: thy goynges in the sanctuarie my Lorde and kyng. 25 The singers go before, the minstrelles folowe after: in the myddest are the damselles playing with the timbrelles.
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moyses, saying: 2 Make thee two trumpettes of siluer: of an whole peece shalt thou make them, that thou mayest vse them to call the congregation together, and when the campe shall iourney. 3 And when they shal blowe with them, all the multitude shall resort to thee before the doore of the tabernacle of the congregation. 4 And if they blowe but one trumpet, then the princes which are heades ouer the thousandes of Israel shall come vnto thee. 5 But if ye blowe an alarme, the hoastes that lye on the east partes shall go forwarde. 6 And if ye blowe the alarme the second tyme, the hoast that lyeth on the south side shall take their iourney: for they shall blowe an alarme when they take their iourneyes. 7 But when the congregation is to be gathered together, they shall blowe without an alarme. 8 And the sonnes of Aaron the priestes shall blowe with their trumpettes, and ye shall haue them as a lawe for euer in your generations. 9 And if ye go to warre in your lande agaynst your enemies that vexe you, ye shall blowe an alarme with the trumpettes, and ye shalbe remembred before the Lorde your God, to be saued from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladnesse, and in your feast dayes, & in the begynnyng of your monethes, ye shall blowe the trumpettes ouer your burnt sacrifices and peace offerynges, that they may be a remembraunce for you before your God: I am the Lorde your God.
• Num 23:21 : 21 He behelde no vanitie in Iacob, nor saw transgression in Israel: The Lord his God is with hym, and the ioyfull shout of a king is among them.
• Josh 6:5 : 5 And when they make a long blast with the rammes horne, and ye heare the sounde of the horne, all the people shall shout with a great shout: And then shall the wall of the citie fall downe, and the people shall assende vp, euery man strayght before hym.
• 1 Chr 15:24 : 24 And Sebaniahu, Iehosaphat, Nathanael, Amasai, Zachariahu, Banaiahu, and Eliezer the priestes did blowe with trumpettes before the arke of God: And Obed Edom and Iehia were kepers of the doore of the arke.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 And al they of Israel brought the arke of the Lordes couenaunt with showting, and blowing of the shawme, and trumpettes, making a noyse with cymbales, psalteries, and harpes.
• 1 Chr 16:42 : 42 And with them dyd Heman and Ieduthun sing with the trumpets and cymbales, making a sweete melodie with instrumentes of musicke & godly songues: And the sonnes of Ieduthun were porters.
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 And it came to passe, as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caryed vp into heauen. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Hierusalem with great ioy, 53 And were continually in the temple, praysyng and laudyng God. Amen.
• Acts 1:5-9 : 5 For Iohn truely baptized with water, but ye shalbe baptized with the holy ghost, after these fewe dayes. 6 When they therfore were come together, they asked of hym, saying: Lorde, wylt thou at this tyme restore agayne the kyngdome to Israel? 7 And he sayde vnto them: It is not for you to knowe the tymes, or the seasons, which the father hath put in his owne power. 8 But ye shall receaue power, after that the holy ghost is come vpon you: And ye shalbe witnesses vnto me, both in Hierusalem, and in al Iurie, & in Samarie, and euen vnto the worldes ende. 9 And when he had spoken these thynges, whyle they behelde, he was taken vp an hye, and a cloude receaued hym vp out of their syght. 10 And while they loked stedfastly vp towarde heaue, as he went, beholde, two men stoode by them in whyte apparell, 11 Which also sayde: Ye men of Galilee, why stande ye gasyng vp into heauen? This same Iesus, which is taken vp from you into heauen, shall so come, euen as ye haue seene hym go into heauen.
• Ps 78:65 : 65 But the Lorde awaked as though he had slept: like a giaunt making a triumphant noyse after wine.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blowe vp the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed: and vpon our solempne feast day.
• Ps 98:6 : 6 Shewe your selues ioyfull before the kyng eternall: with trumpettes and sounde of shawmes.
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without doubt, great is that misterie of godlynesse: God was shewed in the flesshe, was iustified in the spirite, was seene among the angels, was preached vnto the gentiles, was beleued on in the worlde, and was receaued vp in glorie.
• Rev 8:6-9 : 6 And the seuen angels whiche had the seuen trumpettes, prepared them selues to blowe. 7 The first angell blewe, & there was made hayle & fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast into the earth, and the thirde part of trees was burnt, and all greene grasse was burnt. 8 And the seconde angell blewe, and as it were a great mountayne burnyng with fire was cast into the sea, and the thirde part of the sea turned to blood. 9 And the thirde part of the creatures whiche were in the sea, and hadde lyfe, dyed, and the thirde part of shippes were destroyed. 10 And the third angell blewe, and there fell a great starre from heauen, burning as it were a lampe, and it fell into the thirde part of the ryuers, and into fountaynes of waters: 11 And the name of the starre is called wormewood, and the thirde part was turned to wormewood, and many men dyed of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 And the fourth angell blewe, and the thirde part of the sunne was smytten, and the thirde part of the moone, and the thirde part of starres, so that the thirde part of them was darkened: and the day was smitten, that the third part of it shoulde not shyne, and lykewise the nyght. 13 And I behelde, and hearde an angell fleyng through the myddes of heauen, saying with a loude voyce, wo, wo, wo to the inhabiters of the earth, because of the voyces to come of the trumpe of the three angels which were yet to blowe.
• Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seuenth angell blewe, & there were made greate voyces in heauen, saying: the kyngdomes of this worlde are our Lordes, and his Christes, and he shall raigne for euermore.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twynklyng of an eye, at the last trumpe. For the trumpe shall blowe, and the dead shall ryse incorruptible, and we shalbe chaunged.
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherfore he saith: When he went vp an hye, he ledde captiuitie captiue, and gaue gyftes vnto men. 9 (But that he ascended, what is it? but that he also descended first into the lower partes of the earth? 10 He that descended, is euen the same also that ascended vp farre aboue all heauens, to fulfyll all thynges.)
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, and in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first.