Psalms 83:18

KJV1611 – Modern English

That men may know that you, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, are the most high over all the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יֵבֹ֖שׁוּ וְיִבָּהֲל֥וּ עֲדֵי־עַ֗ד וְֽיַחְפְּר֥וּ וְיֹאבֵֽדוּ׃

Transliteration

yēḇōšû weyibbāhălû ʿădê-ʿad weyaḥperû weyōʾḇēdû

Grammar Details

• *yēḇōšû*: 3mp Qal imperfect - they will be ashamed
• *weyibbāhălû*: conjunction + 3mp Niphal imperfect - and they will be dismayed
• *ʿădê-ʿad*: preposition + noun - forever/until eternity
• *weyaḥperû*: conjunction + 3mp Qal imperfect - and they will be disgraced
• *weyōʾḇēdû*: conjunction + 3mp Qal imperfect - and they will perish

Word Meanings

• *bôš*: be ashamed/disappointed/confounded
• *bāhal*: be dismayed/terrified/panic
• *ʿădê-ʿad*: forever/perpetually/eternally
• *ḥāp̄ēr*: be ashamed/disgraced/confounded
• *ʾāḇad*: perish/be destroyed/be lost

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Let them be ashamed and dismayed forever; let them be disgraced and perish.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  That men may know{H8799)} that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  That they maye knowe, that thou art alone, that thy name is the LORDE, and that thou only art the most hyest ouer all the earth.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And let them knowe that thou in thy name God eternall art only: O thou the most highest ouer all the earth.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  That [men] may know that thou, whose name alone [is] JEHOVAH, [art] the most high over all the earth.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  That they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, Are the Most High over all the earth.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And they know that Thou -- (Thy name `is' Jehovah -- by Thyself,) `Art' the Most High over all the earth!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth. Psalm 84 For the Chief Musician; set to the Gittith. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  That they may know that thou alone, whose name is Jehovah, Art the Most High over all the earth.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.

• World English Bible (2000)

  that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth. For the Chief Musician. On an instrument of Gath. A Psalm by the sons of Korah.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Then they will know that you alone are the LORD, the Most High over all the earth.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 6:3 : 3 And I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH I was not known to them.
• Ps 59:13 : 13 Consume them in wrath, consume them, that they may be no more; and let them know that God rules in Jacob to the ends of the earth. Selah.
• Ps 9:16 : 16 The LORD is known by the judgment he executes; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
• Isa 42:8 : 8 I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, nor my praise to carved images.
• Mic 4:13 : 13 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion; for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze, and you shall beat in pieces many people, and I will consecrate their gain to the LORD, and their substance to the Lord of the whole earth.
• Ps 97:9 : 9 For you, LORD, are high above all the earth: you are exalted far above all gods.