Psalms 47:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

To him that excelleth. A Psalme committed to the sonnes of Korah. All people clap your hands: sing loude vnto God with a ioyfull voyce.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַמְנַצֵּ֬חַ ׀ לִבְנֵי־קֹ֬רַח מִזְמֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

To the mĕnaṣṣēaḥ for bənê-qōraḥ a mizmôr

Grammar Details

• *lamenatsēaḥ*: preposition + definite article + participle, masculine singular - 'to the director/chief musician'
• *livnê*: preposition + construct state, masculine plural - 'for the sons of'
• *qōraḥ*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Korah'
• *mizmôr*: noun, masculine singular - 'psalm/song'

Word Meanings

• *mĕnaṣṣēaḥ*: director/chief musician/conductor/overseer
• *mizmôr*: psalm/melody/song

Referenced Verses

• Ps 98:4 : 4 All the earth, sing ye loude vnto the Lord: crie out and reioyce, and sing prayses.
• Isa 55:12 : 12 Therefore ye shall go out with ioy, and be led forth with peace: the mountaines and the hilles shall breake foorth before you into ioye, and all the trees of the fielde shall clap their handes.
• Ps 106:47 : 47 Saue vs, O Lorde our God, and gather vs from among the heathen, that we may praise thine holy Name, and glorie in thy praise.
• Ps 46:1 : 1 To him that excelleth vpon Alamoth a song committed to the sonnes of Korah. God is our hope and strength, and helpe in troubles, ready to be found.
• Ps 47:5 : 5 God is gone vp with triumph, euen the Lord, with the sound of the trumpet.
• 1 Sam 10:24 : 24 And Samuel saide to all the people, See ye not him, whom the Lorde hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? and all the people shouted and saide, God saue the King.
• 2 Kgs 11:12 : 12 Then he brought out the Kings sonne, & put the crowne vpon him and gaue him the Testimonie, and they made him King: also they anoynted him, and clapt their handes, and sayde, God saue the King.
• 2 Chr 13:15 : 15 And the men of Iudah gaue a shoute: and euen as the men of Iudah shouted, God smote Ieroboam and also Israel before Abiiah and Iudah.
• Ezra 3:11-13 : 11 Thus they sang when they gaue prayse, and when they gaue thankes vnto the Lorde, For he is good, for his mercie endureth for euer toward Israel; all the people shouted with a great shoute, when they praysed the Lorde, because the foundation of the house of the Lorde was layed. 12 Many also of the Priests & the Leuites and the chiefe of the fathers, ancient men which had seene the first house, (when the foundation of this house was layed before their eyes) wept with a loud voyce, and many shouted aloud for ioy, 13 So that the people coulde not discerne the sound of the shoute for ioy, from the noyse of the weeping of the people: for the people shouted with a loude crie, & the noyse was heard farre off.
• 2 Sam 6:15 : 15 So Dauid & all the house of Israel, brought the Arke of the Lord with shouting, and sound of trumpet.
• Ps 98:8 : 8 Let the floods clap their hands, and let the mountaines reioyce together
• Jer 31:7 : 7 For thus saith the Lord, Reioyce with gladnesse for Iaakob, and shoute for ioye among the chiefe of the Gentiles: publish praise, and say, O Lord, saue thy people, the remnant of Israel.
• Zeph 3:14 : 14 Reioyce, O daughter Zion: be ye ioyfull, O Israel: be glad and reioyce with all thine heart, O daughter Ierusalem.
• Zech 4:7 : 7 Who art thou, O great mountaine, before Zerubbabel? thou shalt be a plaine, and he shall bring foorth the head stone thereof, with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace vnto it.
• Zech 9:9 : 9 Reioyce greatly, O daughter Zion: shoute for ioy, O daughter Ierusalem: beholde, thy King commeth vnto thee: he is iust and saued himselfe, poore and riding vpon an asse, and vpon a colt the foale of an asse.
• Luke 19:37-40 : 37 And when he was nowe come neere to the going downe of the mount of Oliues, the whole multitude of the disciples began to reioyce, and to prayse God with a loude voyce, for all the great workes that they had seene, 38 Saying, Blessed be the King that commeth in the Name of the Lord: peace in heauen, and glory in the highest places. 39 Then some of the Pharises of the companie sayd vnto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples. 40 But he answered, and sayd vnto them, I tell you, that if these should holde their peace, the stones would crie.
• Rev 19:1-2 : 1 And after these things I heard a great voyce of a great multitude in heauen, saying, Hallelu-iah, saluation, and glorie, and honour, and power be to the Lord our God. 2 For true and righteous are his iudgements: for he hath condemned that great whore, which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath auenged the blood of his seruants shed by her hand.