Psalms 27:3

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־תַּחֲנֶ֬ה עָלַ֨י ׀ מַחֲנֶה֮ לֹֽא־יִירָ֢א לִ֫בִּ֥י אִם־תָּק֣וּם עָ֭לַי מִלְחָמָ֑ה בְּ֝זֹ֗את אֲנִ֣י בוֹטֵֽחַ׃

Transliteration

ʾim-taḥăneh ʿālay ׀ maḥăneh lōʾ-yîrāʾ libbî ʾim-tāqûm ʿālay milḥāmâ bə-zōʾt ʾănî bôṭēaḥ

Grammar Details

• *ʾim*: conditional particle - if
• *taḥăneh*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - it encamps
• *ʿālay*: preposition + 1st person singular suffix - against me
• *maḥăneh*: noun masculine singular - camp/army
• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yîrāʾ*: qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - will fear
• *libbî*: noun + 1st person singular suffix - my heart
• *tāqûm*: qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - it rises/arises
• *milḥāmâ*: noun feminine singular - war/battle
• *bə-zōʾt*: preposition + demonstrative pronoun feminine singular - in this
• *ʾănî*: 1st person singular pronoun - I
• *bôṭēaḥ*: qal participle masculine singular - trusting/confident

Word Meanings

• *taḥăneh*: encamps/pitches/settles
• *maḥăneh*: camp/army/host/band
• *yîrāʾ*: will fear/be afraid
• *libbî*: my heart/mind/will/inner self
• *tāqûm*: rises/stands/arises/is established
• *milḥāmâ*: war/battle/conflict/fighting
• *bə-zōʾt*: in this/by this/despite this
• *bôṭēaḥ*: trusting/confident/secure

Referenced Verses

• Ps 3:6 : 6 I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.
• Phil 1:28 : 28 And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
• 1 Pet 3:14 : 14 But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
• Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• Rev 12:7-9 : 7 And the was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And pvailed not; neither was their place found any mo in heaven. 9 And the gat dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels we cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and stngth, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our bthn is cast down, which accused them befo our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
• Ps 52:6 : 6 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh at him:
• Isa 41:11-12 : 11 Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. 12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
• Isa 54:16-17 : 16 Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. 17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
• Rom 8:35-37 : 35 Who shall separate us fm the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquers thugh him that loved us.
• 2 Cor 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
• 1 Sam 28:15-16 : 15 And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? And Saul answered, I am sore distressed; for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by prophets, nor by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest make known unto me what I shall do. 16 Then said Samuel, Wherefore then dost thou ask of me, seeing the LORD is departed from thee, and is become thine enemy?
• 2 Chr 20:15 : 15 And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
• Job 4:6 : 6 Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?
• 2 Kgs 6:15-17 : 15 And when the servant of the man of God was risen early, and gone forth, behold, an host compassed the city both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him, Alas, my master! how shall we do? 16 And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. 17 And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.