Psalms 104:20

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תָּֽשֶׁת־חֹ֭שֶׁךְ וִ֣יהִי לָ֑יְלָה בּֽוֹ־תִ֝רְמֹ֗שׂ כָּל־חַיְתוֹ־יָֽעַר׃

Transliteration

tāshet-ḥōshek wîhî lāylāh bô-tirmōś kol-ḥaytô-yāʿar

Grammar Details

*tāshet*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you make/set
*ḥōshek*: noun, masculine singular - darkness
*wîhî*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect jussive, 3rd person masculine singular - and it becomes
*lāylāh*: noun, masculine singular - night
*bô*: preposition *bě* + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in it
*tirmōś*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - it creeps/prowls
*kol*: noun, masculine singular construct - all of
*ḥaytô*: noun, feminine singular construct - beasts of
*yāʿar*: noun, masculine singular - forest

Word Meanings

*tāshet*: set, make, place, appoint
*ḥōshek*: darkness, obscurity, night
*wîhî*: and it becomes, and it is, and there is
*lāylāh*: night, nighttime
*tirmōś*: creeps, prowls, moves about
*ḥaytô*: beasts, animals, living creatures
*yāʿar*: forest, woods, thicket

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 45:7 : 7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Ps 74:16 : 16 The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared{H8689)} the light and the sun.
Ps 139:10-12 : 10 Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. 12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.
Gen 1:4-5 : 4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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.
Ps 50:10 : 10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Amos 1:13 : 13 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border:

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