Psalms 74:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The day is thine, the night also is thine: thou hast prepared{H8689)} the light and the sun.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לְךָ֣ י֭וֹם אַף־לְךָ֥ לָ֑יְלָה אַתָּ֥ה הֲ֝כִינ֗וֹתָ מָא֥וֹר וָשָֽׁמֶשׁ׃

Transliteration

To you yom, also to you laylah; attah hachinota ma'or va-shamesh.

Grammar Details

• *lecha*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'to you/yours'
• *yom*: masculine singular noun - 'day'
• *af-lecha*: conjunction + preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'also to you'
• *laylah*: masculine singular noun - 'night'
• *attah*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - 'you'
• *hachinota*: hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you established'
• *ma'or*: masculine singular noun - 'light/luminary'
• *va-shamesh*: conjunction + feminine singular noun - 'and sun'

Word Meanings

• *hachinota*: established/prepared/set in place
• *ma'or*: light/luminary/light-giver
• *shamesh*: sun/solar light

Referenced Verses

• Ps 136:7-9 : 7 To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever: 8 The sun to rule by day: for his mercy endureth for ever: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Gen 1:14-18 : 14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
• Ps 8:3 : 3 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;
• Ps 19:1-6 : 1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. 2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. 3 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
• Ps 104:19 : 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
• Gen 1:3-5 : 3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. 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.