Psalms 145:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

חַנּ֣וּן וְרַח֣וּם יְהוָ֑ה אֶ֥רֶךְ אַ֝פַּ֗יִם וּגְדָל־חָֽסֶד

Transliteration

Ḥannûn wᵊraḥûm YHWH, ʾereḵ ʾappayim and ûgᵊdāl-ḥāsed

Grammar Details

• *Ḥannûn*: adjective masculine singular - gracious
• *wᵊraḥûm*: conjunction + adjective masculine singular - and compassionate
• *YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
• *ʾereḵ*: adjective masculine singular construct - slow/long of
• *ʾappayim*: noun masculine dual - anger (lit: nostrils)
• *ûgᵊdāl*: conjunction + adjective masculine singular construct - and great of
• *ḥāsed*: noun masculine singular - steadfast love/mercy/kindness

Word Meanings

• *Ḥannûn*: gracious/favorable/merciful
• *wᵊraḥûm*: and compassionate/merciful
• *ʾereḵ ʾappayim*: slow to anger/patient/long-suffering
• *ûgᵊdāl-ḥāsed*: and great in steadfast love/abundant in mercy/abounding in lovingkindness

Referenced Verses

• Num 14:18 : 18 The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
• Ps 86:5 : 5 For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call{H8802)} upon thee.
• Ps 86:15 : 15 But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
• Ps 100:5 : 5 For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.
• Exod 34:6-7 : 6 And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, 7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
• Ps 103:8 : 8 The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
• Ps 116:5 : 5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.
• Jonah 4:2 : 2 And he prayed unto the LORD, and said, I pray thee, O LORD, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
• Mic 7:18-20 : 18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.
• Dan 9:9 : 9 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him;
• Eph 2:4 : 4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
• Rom 5:20-21 : 20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: 21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• Eph 1:8 : 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;