Psalms 99:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

They shall prayse thy name great & dreadfull: for it is holy, and a kynges power that loueth iudgement.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יוֹד֣וּ שִׁ֭מְךָ גָּד֥וֹל וְנוֹרָ֗א קָד֥וֹשׁ הֽוּא׃

Transliteration

yôdû šimḵā gādôl wə-nôrāʾ qādôš hûʾ

Grammar Details

• *yôdû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will praise
• *šimḵā*: common noun, masculine singular construct with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your name
• *gādôl*: adjective, masculine singular - great
• *wə-nôrāʾ*: conjunction + niphal participle, masculine singular - and awesome/fearful
• *qādôš*: adjective, masculine singular - holy
• *hûʾ*: personal pronoun, 3rd person masculine singular - he/it

Word Meanings

• *yôdû*: praise/thank/acknowledge
• *gādôl*: great/mighty/large
• *nôrāʾ*: awesome/fearsome/terrible/to be revered

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:58 : 58 If thou wylt not kepe and do all the wordes of this lawe that are written in this booke, and feare this glorious and fearefull name, The Lorde thy God:
• Josh 24:19 : 19 And Iosuah sayde vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lord: for he is an holy God, and a ielous God, and cannot beare your iniquite and sinne.
• Isa 6:3 : 3 They cryed also eche one to another on this maner, Holy, holy, holy is the Lorde of hoastes: the whole earth is full of his glory.
• Ps 111:9 : 9 He did sende redemption vnto his people: he hath commaunded his couenaunt to be for euer, holy and terrible is his name.
• 1 Sam 2:2 : 2 There is none holy as the Lorde: for without thee is nothing, neither is there any of strength as is our God.
• Neh 1:5 : 5 And sayde: O Lorde God of heauen, thou great and terrible God, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie for them that loue thee & obserue thy commaundementes:
• Neh 4:14 : 14 And I loked, and gat me vp, and sayde vnto the chiefe men, to the rulers, and to the other people, Be not ye afrayde of them: but thinke rather vpon the great Lorde whiche ought to be feared, and fight for your brethre, your sonnes, your daughters, your wiues, & your houses.
• Neh 9:32 : 32 Now therfore our God, thou great God mightie and terrible, thou that kepest couenaunt and mercie, regarde not a litle al the trauaile that hath come vnto vs, and our kinges, our princes, our priestes, our prophetes, and our fathers, and all the people since the time of the kinges of Assur, vnto this day.
• Ps 66:3 : 3 Say vnto the Lorde, oh howe wonderfull art thou in thy workes: thorow the greatnes of thy power thyne enemies shalbe founde liers vnto thee.
• Ps 76:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition in Neginoth, the psalme of Asaph, a song. In Iurie is God knowen: his name is great in Israel.
• Ps 76:12 : 12 He abateth the spirite of princes: he is dreadfull to the kynges of the earth.
• Ps 145:17 : 17 God is righteous in all his wayes: and holy in all his workes.
• Deut 7:21 : 21 Thou shalt not feare the: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mightie God and a terrible.
• Jer 20:11 : 11 But the Lorde stoode by me lyke a mightie giaunt, therefore my persecutours fell and coulde do nothing: they shalbe sore confounded, for they haue done vnwisely, they shall haue an euerlasting shame, which shall neuer be forgotten.
• John 17:11 : 11 And nowe am I not in the worlde, and they are in the worlde, and I come to thee. Holy father, kepe through thine owne name, the which thou hast geuen me, that they may also be one, as we are.
• Rev 4:8 : 8 And the foure beastes had eche one of them sixe wynges about hym, and they were full of eyes within: and they had no rest day neither night, saying: Holy, holy, holy Lorde God almightie, which was, and is, and is to come.
• Rev 15:3-4 : 3 And they sang the song of Moyses the seruaunt of God, and the song of the lambe, saying: Great and marueylous are thy workes Lorde God almightie, iust and true are thy wayes thou kyng of saintes. 4 Who shall not feare thee O Lorde, and glorifie thy name? for thou only art holy: And all gentiles shal come and worship before thee, for thy iudgemetes are made manifest.