Psalms 68:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

The charets of God are twentie thousande thousand Angels, and the Lord is among them, as in the Sanctuarie of Sinai.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֤מָּה ׀ תְּֽרַצְּדוּן֮ הָרִ֢ים גַּבְנֻ֫נִּ֥ים הָהָ֗ר חָמַ֣ד אֱלֹהִ֣ים לְשִׁבְתּ֑וֹ אַף־יְ֝הוָ֗ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָנֶֽצַח׃

Transliteration

lāmmâ təraṣṣədûn hārîm gabnunnîm the-hār ḥāmad ʾĕlōhîm lə-šibtô ʾap-YHWH yiškōn lā-neṣaḥ

Grammar Details

• *lāmmâ*: interrogative particle - 'why'
• *təraṣṣədûn*: Piel imperfect 2nd masculine plural with paragogic nun - 'you look with envy'
• *hārîm*: masculine plural noun - 'mountains'
• *gabnunnîm*: masculine plural adjective - 'many-peaked'
• the-*hār*: definite article + masculine singular noun - 'the mountain'
• *ḥāmad*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular - 'he desired'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with singular meaning - 'God'
• *lə-šibtô*: preposition לְ (for) + Qal infinitive construct with 3rd masculine singular possessive suffix - 'for his dwelling'
• *ʾap*: particle - 'indeed/also'
• *YHWH*: divine name - 'LORD'
• *yiškōn*: Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - 'he will dwell'
• *lā-neṣaḥ*: preposition לְ (for) + definite article + masculine singular noun - 'forever'

Word Meanings

• *təraṣṣədûn*: you look with envy/you watch jealously/you leap
• *ḥāmad*: desired/took pleasure in/delighted in
• *šibtô*: his dwelling/his habitation/his abode
• *neṣaḥ*: forever/perpetuity/eternity

Referenced Verses

• Deut 33:2 : 2 The Lord came from Sinai, & rose vp from Seir vnto them, & appeared clearely from mount Paran, & he came with ten thousands of Saints, and at his right hand a firie Lawe for them.
• Dan 7:10 : 10 A fierie streame yssued, and came foorth from before him: thousand thousandes ministred vnto him, and tenne thousand thousands stoode before him: the iudgement was set, and the bookes opened.
• Hab 3:8 : 8 Was the Lorde angry against the riuers? Or was thine anger against the floods? Or was thy wrath against the sea, that thou diddest ride vpon thine horses? Thy charets brought saluation.
• Matt 26:53 : 53 Either thinkest thou, that I can not now pray to my Father, and he will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels?
• Rev 5:11 : 11 Then I behelde, & I heard the voice of many Angels round about the throne, & about the beastes and the Elders, & there were ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousand thousands,
• Rev 9:16 : 16 And the nomber of horsemen of warre were twentie thousand times ten thousand: for I heard the nomber of them.
• 2 Kgs 2:11 : 11 And as they went walking and talking, beholde, there appeared a charet of fire, and horses of fire, and did separate them twaine. So Eliiah went vp by a whirle winde into heauen.
• 2 Kgs 6:16-17 : 16 And he answered, Feare not: for they that be with vs, are moe then they that be with them. 17 Then Elisha prayed, and saide, Lorde, I beseech thee, open his eyes, that he may see; the Lorde opened the eyes of the seruant, and he looked, and beholde, the mountaine was full of horses and charets of fyre round about Elisha.
• Ps 18:10 : 10 And he rode vpon Cherub and did flie, and he came flying vpon the wings of the winde.
• Ezek 1:15-28 : 15 Nowe as I behelde the beastes, beholde, a wheele appeared vpon the earth by the beastes, hauing foure faces. 16 The facion of the wheeles and their worke was like vnto a chrysolite: and they foure had one forme, and their facion, and their worke was as one wheele in another wheele. 17 Whe they went, they went vpo their foure sides, and they returned not when they went. 18 They had also rings, and height, and were fearefull to beholde, and their rings were full of eyes, round about them foure. 19 And when the beastes went, the wheeles went with them: and when the beasts were lift vp from the earth, the wheeles were lift vp. 20 Whither the spirit led them, they went, & thither did the spirite of the wheeles leade them, and the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirit of the beastes was in the wheeles. 21 When the beastes went, they went, & when they stoode, they stoode, and when they were lifted vp from the earth, the wheeles were lifted vp besides them: for the spirite of the beastes was in the wheeles. 22 And the similitude of the firmament vpon the heads of the beasts was wonderfull, like vnto chrystall, spred ouer their heads aboue. 23 And vnder the firmament were their wings streight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which couered the, and euery one had two, which couered their bodies. 24 And when they went foorth, I heard the noyse of their wings, like the noyse of great waters, and as the voyce of the Almightie, euen the voyce of speach, as the noyse of an host: and when they stood, they let downe their wings. 25 And there was a voyce fro the firmament, that was ouer their heads, when they stoode, and had let downe their wings. 26 And aboue the firmament that was ouer their heads, was the facion of a throne like vnto a saphir stone, and vpon the similitude of the throne was by appearance, as the similitude of a man aboue vpon it. 27 And I sawe as the appearance of amber, and as the similitude of fire round about within it to looke to, euen from his loynes vpwarde: and to looke to, euen from his loynes downewarde, I sawe as a likenesse of fire, and brightnesse round about it. 28 As the likenesse of the bowe, that is in the cloude in the day of raine, so was the appearance of the light round about. (1:29) This was the appearance of the similitude of the glorie of the Lord: and when I sawe it, I fell vpon my face, and I heard a voyce of one that spake.
• Exod 3:5 : 5 Then he saide, Come not hither, put thy shooes off thy feete: for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.
• Exod 19:22-23 : 22 And let the Priestes also which come to the Lorde be sanctified, least the Lorde destroy them. 23 And Moses sayde vnto the Lord, The people can not come vp into the mount Sinai: for thou hast charged vs, saying, Set markes on the mountaine, and sanctifie it.