Psalms 24:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִֽי־יַעֲלֶ֥ה בְהַר־יְהוָ֑ה וּמִי־יָ֝קוּם בִּמְק֥וֹם קָדְשֽׁוֹ׃

Transliteration

Who yaʿăleh in har-YHWH, and who yāqûm in mĕqôm qodšô?

Grammar Details

• מִי: interrogative pronoun - who
• *yaʿăleh*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will ascend/go up
• בְ: preposition - in/on
• *har*: noun, masculine singular construct - mountain of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD/Yahweh
• *yāqûm*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he will stand/rise
• בִּ: preposition - in
• *mĕqôm*: noun, masculine singular construct - place of
• *qodšô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his holiness/his holy

Word Meanings

• *yaʿăleh*: will ascend/will go up/will climb
• *yāqûm*: will stand/will rise/will endure
• *mĕqôm*: place/location/site
• *qodšô*: his holiness/his holy place/his sanctuary

Referenced Verses

• Ps 15:1 : 1 ¶ A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
• Ps 68:18 : 18 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, [for] the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell [among them].
• Mal 3:1 : 1 ¶ Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Ps 2:6 : 6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• John 13:36 : 36 ¶ Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, ‹Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.›
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus saith unto her, ‹Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and› [to] ‹my God, and your God.›
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. 9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
• Heb 12:22-24 : 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than [that of] Abel.
• Heb 12:28 : 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
• Ps 78:68-69 : 68 But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved. 69 And he built his sanctuary like high [palaces], like the earth which he hath established for ever.
• Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For the LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired [it] for his habitation. 14 This [is] my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.
• Ps 65:4 : 4 Blessed [is the man whom] thou choosest, and causest to approach [unto thee, that] he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, [even] of thy holy temple.
• Ps 68:15-16 : 15 ¶ The hill of God [is as] the hill of Bashan; an high hill [as] the hill of Bashan. 16 Why leap ye, ye high hills? [this is] the hill [which] God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell [in it] for ever.
• Lev 10:3 : 3 ¶ Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
• 2 Sam 6:12-17 : 12 ¶ And it was told king David, saying, The LORD hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that [pertaineth] unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness. 13 And it was [so], that when they that bare the ark of the LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings. 14 And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. 16 And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart. 17 And they brought in the ark of the LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
• 1 Chr 15:1 : 1 ¶ And [David] made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
• 1 Chr 15:25-28 : 25 ¶ So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy. 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams. 27 And David [was] clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also [had] upon him an ephod of linen. 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.