Exodus 15:2

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will alt him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עָזִּ֤י וְזִמְרָת֙ יָ֔הּ וַֽיְהִי־לִ֖י לִֽישׁוּעָ֑ה זֶ֤ה אֵלִי֙ וְאַנְוֵ֔הוּ אֱלֹהֵ֥י אָבִ֖י וַאֲרֹמְמֶֽנְהוּ׃

Transliteration

ʿāzzî wəzimrāt Yāh wayəhî-lî lîšūʿāh zeh ʾēlî wəʾanwēhū ʾĕlōhê ʾāḇî waʾărōməmenhū

Grammar Details

• *ʿāzzî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my strength
• *wəzimrāt*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct - and song of
• *Yāh*: divine name, shortened form of YHWH - Yah
• *wayəhî*: conjunction + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he became
• *lî*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - to/for me
• *lîšūʿāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - for salvation
• *zeh*: demonstrative pronoun, masculine singular - this
• *ʾēlî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my God
• *wəʾanwēhū*: conjunction + piel imperfect 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and I will glorify him
• *ʾĕlōhê*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *ʾāḇî*: noun, masculine singular + 1st person singular suffix - my father
• *waʾărōməmenhū*: conjunction + polel imperfect 1st singular + 3rd masculine singular suffix - and I will exalt him

Word Meanings

• *ʿāzzî*: my strength/my power/my refuge
• *zimrāt*: song/music/praise
• *wayəhî-lî lîšūʿāh*: he has become my salvation/he is my deliverance
• *wəʾanwēhū*: I will glorify him/I will adorn him/I will prepare him a habitation/I will praise him

Referenced Verses

• Isa 12:2 : 2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
• Isa 25:1 : 1 O LORD, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are faithfulness and truth.
• Ps 59:17 : 17 Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.
• Ps 118:14 : 14 The LORD is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.
• Ps 99:5 : 5 Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
• Ps 18:46 : 46 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
• Exod 3:15-16 : 15 And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations. 16 Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
• Ps 145:1 : 1 David's alm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
• Ps 34:3 : 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.
• Ps 140:7 : 7 O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.
• Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
• Ps 118:28 : 28 Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, I will exalt thee.
• Deut 10:21 : 21 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
• Ps 18:1-2 : 1 To the chief Musician, A alm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
• 2 Sam 22:47 : 47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.
• Exod 3:6 : 6 Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.
• Ps 109:1 : 1 To the chief Musician, A alm of David. Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise;
• Ps 27:1 : 1 A alm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
• Ps 28:8 : 8 The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.
• Ps 30:1 : 1 A alm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.
• Ps 62:6-7 : 6 He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved. 7 In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
• Ps 68:20 : 20 He that is our God is the God of salvation; and unto GOD the Lord belong the issues from death.
• Ps 132:5 : 5 Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
• Isa 45:17 : 17 But Israel shall be saved in the LORD with an everlasting salvation: ye shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end.
• Isa 66:1 : 1 Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
• Jer 3:23 : 23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
• Jer 31:33 : 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• Jer 32:38 : 38 And they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
• Hab 3:17-19 : 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
• Luke 1:77 : 77 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,
• Luke 2:30 : 30 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
• John 4:22 : 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
• John 5:23 : 23 That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
• Acts 4:12 : 12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
• 2 Cor 5:19 : 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.
• Eph 2:22 : 22 In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.
• Phil 2:11 : 11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Phil 4:13 : 13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
• Col 2:9 : 9 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
• Rev 5:9-9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals theof: for thou wast slain, and hast deemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindd, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall ign on the earth. 11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to ceive power, and riches, and wisdom, and stngth, and honour, and glory, and blessing. 13 And every catu which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and such as a in the sea, and all that a in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. 14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
• Rev 15:3 : 3 And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Gat and marvellous a thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true a thy ways, thou King of saints.
• Rev 19:1 : 1 And after these things I heard a gat voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
• Ps 22:3 : 3 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
• Ps 22:10 : 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
• 2 Sam 22:51 : 51 He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
• 1 Kgs 8:13 : 13 I have surely built thee an house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.
• 1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
• 2 Sam 7:5 : 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
• Gen 17:7 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their nerations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.
• Gen 28:21-22 : 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.
• Exod 4:22 : 22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:
• Exod 14:13 : 13 And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
• Exod 40:34 : 34 Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.