Psalms 47:5

Geneva Bible (1560)

God is gone vp with triumph, euen the Lord, with the sound of the 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 To him that rideth vpon ye most high heauens, which were from the beginning: beholde, he will send out by his voice a mightie sound.
• Ps 150:3 : 3 Prayse ye him in the sounde of the trumpet: prayse yee him vpon the viole and the harpe.
• 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 24:7-9 : 7 Lift vp your heads ye gates, and be ye lift vp ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glorie? the Lord, strong and mightie, euen the Lord mightie in battell. 9 Lift vp your heads, ye gates, and lift vp your selues, ye euerlasting doores, and the King of glorie shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? the Lorde of hostes, he is the King of glorie. Selah.
• Ps 68:17-19 : 17 The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai. 18 Thou art gone vp on high: thou hast led captiuitie captiue, and receiued giftes for men: yea, euen the rebellious hast thou led, that the Lorde God might dwell there. 19 Praysed be the Lorde, euen the God of our saluation, which ladeth vs dayly with benefites. Selah.
• Ps 68:24-25 : 24 They haue seene, O God, thy goings, the goings of my God, and my King, which art in the Sanctuarie. 25 The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 And the Lorde spake vnto Moses, saying, 2 Make thee two trumpets of siluer: of an whole piece shalt thou make the, that thou mayest vse them for the assembling of the Congregation, and for the departure of the campe. 3 And when they shall blowe with them, all the Congregation shall assemble to thee before the doore of the Tabernacle of the Cogregation. 4 But if they blowe with one, then the princes, or heades ouer the thousandes of Israel shall come vnto thee. 5 But if ye blow an alarme, then the campe of the that pitch on the East part, shal go forward. 6 If ye blowe an alarme the second time, then the hoste of them that lie on the Southside shal march: for they shal blowe an alarme when they remoue. 7 But in assembling the Congregation, ye shall blowe without an alarme. 8 And the sonnes of Aaron the Priest shall blowe the trumpets, and ye shall haue them as a lawe for euer in your generations. 9 And when ye goe to warre in your lande against the enemie that vexeth you, ye shall blowe an alarme with the trumpets, and ye shall bee remembred before the Lorde your God, and shalbe saued from your enemies. 10 Also in the day of your gladnesse, and in your feast dayes, & in the beginning of your moneths, ye shal also blow the trumpets ouer your burnt sacrifices, and ouer your peace offrings, that they may be a remembrance for you before your God: I am the Lorde your God.
• Num 23:21 : 21 Hee seeth none iniquitie in Iaakob, nor seeth no transgression in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the ioyfull shoute of a king is among them.
• Josh 6:5 : 5 And when they make a long blast with the rams horne, and ye heare the sound of the trumpet, al the people shal shoute with a great shoute: then shall the wall of the citie fall downe flat, and the people shall ascend vp, euery man streight before him.
• 1 Chr 15:24 : 24 And Shecaniah and Iehoshaphat and Nethaneel and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer the Priestes did blowe with trumpets before the Arke of God, and Obed Edom and Ieiiah were porters for the Arke.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 Thus all Israel brought vp the Arke of the Lordes couenant with shouting and sounde of cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbales, making a sound with violes and with harpes.
• 1 Chr 16:42 : 42 Euen with them were Heman & Ioduthun, to make a sound with the cornets and with the cymbales, with excellent instruments of musicke: and the sonnes of Ieduthun were at the gate.
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 And it came to passe, that as he blessed them, he departed from them, and was caried vp into heauen. 52 And they worshipped him, and returned to Hierusalem with great ioy, 53 And were continually in the Temple, praysing, and lauding God, Amen.
• Acts 1:5-9 : 5 For Iohn in deede baptized with water, but ye shall be baptized with the holy Ghost within these fewe daies. 6 When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lorde, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome to Israel? 7 And hee saide vnto them, It is not for you to know the times, or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his owne power, 8 But yee shall receiue power of the holy Ghost, when he shall come on you: and ye shalbe witnesses vnto me both in Hierusalem and in all Iudea, and in Samaria, and vnto the vttermost part of the earth. 9 And when he had spoken these things, while they behelde, he was taken vp: for a cloude tooke him vp out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly towarde heauen, as hee went, beholde, two men stoode by them in white apparell, 11 Which also sayde, Yee men of Galile, why stande yee gasing into heauen? This Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen, shal so come, as yee haue seene him goe into heauen.
• Ps 78:65 : 65 But the Lord awaked as one out of sleepe, & as a strong man that after his wine crieth out,
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Blowe the trumpet in the newe moone, euen in the time appointed, at our feast day.
• Ps 98:6 : 6 With shalmes and sound of trumpets sing loude before the Lord the King.
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And without controuersie, great is the mysterie of godlinesse, which is, God is manifested in the flesh, iustified in the Spirit, seene of Angels, preached vnto the Gentiles, beleeued on in the world, and receiued vp in glorie.
• Rev 8:6-9 : 6 Then the seuen Angels, which had the seuen trumpets, prepared themselues to blow the trumpets. 7 So the first Angell blewe the trumpet, and there was haile & 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 second Angel blew the trumpet, and as it were a great mountaine, burning with fire, was cast into the sea, and the thirde part of the sea became blood. 9 And the thirde part of the creatures, which were in the sea, and had life, died, and the thirde part of shippes were destroyed. 10 Then the thirde Angel blew the trumpet, and there fell a great starre from heauen, burning like a torche, and it fell into the thirde part of the riuers, and into the fountaines of waters. 11 And the name of the starre is called wormewood: therefore the thirde part of the waters became wormewood, and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. 12 And the fourth Angel blew the trumpet, and the thirde part of the sunne was smitten, and the thirde part of the moone, and the thirde part of the starres, so that the thirde part of them was darkened: and the day was smitten, that the thirde part of it could not shine, and likewise the night. 13 And I behelde, and heard one Angell flying through the middes of heauen, saying with a loude voyce, Wo, wo, wo to the inhabitants of the earth, because of the sounds to come of the trumpet of the three Angels, which were yet to blow the trumpets.
• Rev 11:15 : 15 And the seuenth Angell blewe the trumpet, and there were great voyces in heauen, saying, The kingdomes of this worlde are our Lordes, and his Christes, and he shall reigne for euermore.
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 In a moment, in the twinckling of an eye at the last trumpet: for the trumpet shall blow, and the dead shalbe raysed vp incorruptible, and we shalbe changed.
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherfore he saith, Whe he asceded vp on hie, he led captiuity captiue, & gaue gifts vnto men. 9 (Nowe, in that hee ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest partes of the earth? 10 Hee that descended, is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that hee might fill all things)
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lorde himselfe shall descende from heauen with a shoute, and with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: