Psalms 107:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וּֽמֵאֲרָצ֗וֹת קִ֫בְּצָ֥ם מִמִּזְרָ֥ח וּמִֽמַּעֲרָ֑ב מִצָּפ֥וֹן וּמִיָּֽם

Transliteration

and-from-ʾărāṣôt qibbᵊṣām from-mizrāḥ and-from-maʿărāb from-ṣāpôn and-from-yām

Grammar Details

• *ʾărāṣôt*: noun, feminine plural with prefixed conjunction waw and preposition min - and from lands
• *qibbᵊṣām*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - he gathered them
• *mizrāḥ*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition min - from east
• *maʿărāb*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction waw and preposition min - and from west
• *ṣāpôn*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition min - from north
• *yām*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed conjunction waw and preposition min - and from sea/south

Word Meanings

• *ʾărāṣôt*: lands/countries/earth
• *qibbᵊṣām*: he gathered them/collected them/assembled them
• *mizrāḥ*: east/sunrise
• *maʿărāb*: west/sunset
• *ṣāpôn*: north
• *yām*: sea/west/south (in this context, likely south since west is already mentioned)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 106:47 : 47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
• Isa 43:5-6 : 5 Fear not: for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; 6 I will say to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back: bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the earth;
• Jer 29:14 : 14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
• Jer 31:8 : 8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a great company shall return thither.
• Jer 31:10 : 10 Hear the word of the LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
• Ezek 39:27 : 27 When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies' lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations;
• Deut 30:3 : 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
• Rev 5:9 : 9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;
• Ezek 20:34 : 34 And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand, and with a stretched out arm, and with fury poured out.
• Ezek 36:24 : 24 For I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land.
• Isa 49:12 : 12 Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.
• Isa 56:8 : 8 The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.
• Isa 11:11-16 : 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. 12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. 14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them. 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.