Psalms 148:3

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ שֶׁ֣מֶשׁ וְיָרֵ֑חַ הַ֝לְל֗וּהוּ כָּל־כּ֥וֹכְבֵי אֽוֹר׃

Transliteration

Hallelûhû šemeš weyārēaḥ hallelûhû kol-kôkebê ʾôr

Grammar Details

• *Hallelûhû*: imperative plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - praise him
• *šemeš*: noun feminine singular - sun
• *weyārēaḥ*: conjunction + noun masculine singular - and moon
• *hallelûhû*: imperative plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - praise him
• *kol*: construct noun - all of
• *kôkebê*: noun masculine plural construct - stars of
• *ʾôr*: noun masculine singular - light

Word Meanings

• *šemeš*: sun/sunlight
• *yārēaḥ*: moon/lunar body
• *kôkebê*: stars/heavenly bodies
• *ʾôr*: light/brightness/illumination

Referenced Verses

• Ps 19:1-6 : 1 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
• Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
• Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;
• Gen 1:14-16 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
• Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
• Deut 4:19 : 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
• Ps 8:1-3 : 1 O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;