Psalms 141:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

תִּכּ֤וֹן תְּפִלָּתִ֣י קְטֹ֣רֶת לְפָנֶ֑יךָ מַֽשְׂאַ֥ת כַּ֝פַּ֗י מִנְחַת־עָֽרֶב׃

Transliteration

Tikkôn təpillātî [my prayer] qəṭōret before-you; maś'at kappay [lifting of my hands] minḥat-'āreb [evening offering].

Grammar Details

• *Tikkôn*: verb, niphal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular jussive - may it be established
• *təpillātî*: noun, feminine singular construct with 1st person singular suffix - my prayer
• *qəṭōret*: noun, feminine singular construct - incense/smoke offering
• *maś'at*: noun, feminine singular construct - lifting/raising
• *kappay*: noun, feminine dual construct with 1st person singular suffix - my hands/palms
• *minḥat*: noun, feminine singular construct - offering/gift/tribute
• *'āreb*: noun, masculine singular - evening

Word Meanings

• *Tikkôn*: may it be established/may it be directed/let it be set
• *qəṭōret*: incense/smoke offering
• *maś'at*: lifting/raising/elevation
• *minḥat*: grain offering/gift/tribute

Referenced Verses

• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• Rev 5:8 : 8 And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
• Rev 8:3-4 : 3 And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. 4 And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
• Exod 29:39 : 39 The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:
• 1 Kgs 18:36 : 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
• Ps 5:3 : 3 My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.
• Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• Prov 15:8 : 8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
• Dan 9:21 : 21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
• Mal 1:11 : 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the heathen, saith the LORD of hosts.
• Luke 1:9-9 : 9 According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord. 10 And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense.
• Acts 3:1 : 1 Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour.
• Ps 63:4 : 4 Thus will I bless{H8762)} thee while I live: I will lift up{H8799)} my hands in thy name.
• Ezra 9:4 : 4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
• Exod 29:41-42 : 41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD. 42 This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.
• Exod 30:7-9 : 7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when he dresseth the lamps, he shall burn incense upon it. 8 And when Aaron lighteth the lamps at even, he shall burn incense upon it, a perpetual incense before the LORD throughout your generations. 9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
• Exod 30:34-38 : 34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight: 35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy: 36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy. 37 And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the LORD. 38 Whosoever shall make like unto that, to smell thereto, shall even be cut off from his people.
• Lev 10:1-2 : 1 And Nadab and Abihu, the sons of Aaron, took either of them his censer, and put fire therein, and put incense thereon, and offered strange fire before the LORD, which he commanded them not. 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
• Lev 16:11-13 : 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself: 12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail: 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy seat that is upon the testimony, that he die not:
• Num 16:35 : 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
• Num 16:46-48 : 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.