Psalms 150:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַ֥לְלוּיָ֨הּ ׀ הַֽלְלוּ־אֵ֥ל בְּקָדְשׁ֑וֹ הֽ͏ַ֝לְל֗וּהוּ בִּרְקִ֥יעַ עֻזּֽוֹ

Transliteration

Hallelūyāh ׀ Hallelū-ʾēl in-qodšō Hallelūhū in-rāqîaʿ ʿuzzō

Grammar Details

• *Hallelūyāh*: imperative, plural - praise Yah
• *Hallelū*: imperative, plural - praise
• *ʾēl*: direct object marker with noun - God
• *qodšō*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his holiness/sanctuary
• *Hallelūhū*: imperative plural with 3rd person masculine singular object suffix - praise him
• *rāqîaʿ*: noun, masculine singular construct - firmament/expanse
• *ʿuzzō*: noun with 3rd person masculine singular possessive suffix - his strength/might

Word Meanings

• *ʾēl*: God/deity/mighty one
• *qodšō*: his sanctuary/holy place/holiness
• *rāqîaʿ*: firmament/expanse/visible arch of the sky
• *ʿuzzō*: his strength/power/might

Referenced Verses

• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• Ps 149:1 : 1 ¶ Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise in the congregation of saints.
• Ps 29:9 : 9 The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of [his] glory.
• Ps 102:19 : 19 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
• Dan 12:3 : 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
• Ps 116:18-19 : 18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people, 19 In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
• Ps 118:19-20 : 19 ¶ Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them, [and] I will praise the LORD: 20 This gate of the LORD, into which the righteous shall enter.
• Ps 66:13-16 : 13 ¶ I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows, 14 Which my lips have uttered, and my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble. 15 I will offer unto thee burnt sacrifices of fatlings, with the incense of rams; I will offer bullocks with goats. Selah. 16 Come [and] hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.
• Ps 19:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
• Ezek 1:22-26 : 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature [was] as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above. 23 And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that side, their bodies. 24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings. 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads, when they stood, [and] had let down their wings. 26 ¶ And above the firmament that [was] over their heads [was] the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne [was] the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
• Ezek 10:1 : 1 ¶ Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.
• Gen 1:6-8 : 6 ¶ And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. 7 And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which [were] under the firmament from the waters which [were] above the firmament: and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.