Psalms 87:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְשָׁרִ֥ים כְּחֹלְלִ֑ים כָּֽל־מַעְיָנַ֥י בָּֽךְ׃

Transliteration

And-šārîm like-ḥōləlîm kol-maʿyānay in-bāk

Grammar Details

• *šārîm*: Qal participle masculine plural - singers
• *ḥōləlîm*: Polel participle masculine plural - dancers/those dancing
• *kol*-*maʿyānay*: noun + masculine plural noun with 1st person singular suffix - all my springs
• *bāk*: preposition with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - in you

Word Meanings

• *šārîm*: singers/those who sing/musicians
• *ḥōləlîm*: dancers/those dancing/those making music
• *maʿyānay*: my springs/my fountains/my sources

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  As they sing and dance, they will say, 'All my springs are in you.'

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  As well the singers{H8802)} as the players{H8802)} on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in thee.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Sela. Therfore the dwellinge of all syngers & daunsers is in the.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Aswell the singers as the players on instruments shall prayse thee: all my springs are in thee.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And the singers aswell as the players of instrumentes: yea al my fountaines are in thee.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  As well the singers as the players on instruments [shall be there]: all my springs [are] in thee.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains `are' in Thee!

• American Standard Version (1901)

  They that sing as well as they that dance `shall say', All my fountains are in thee. Psalm 88 A Song, a Psalm of the sons of Korah; for the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath Leannoth. Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  They that sing as well as they that dance [shall say], All my fountains are in thee.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  The players on instruments will be there, and the dancers will say, All my springs are in you.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Those who sing as well as those who dance say, "All my springs are in you." A Song. A Psalm by the sons of Korah. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "The Suffering of Affliction." A contemplation by Heman, the Ezrahite.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  As for the singers, as well as the pipers– all of them sing within your walls.

Referenced Verses

• Ps 36:9 : 9 For with you is the fountain of life: in your light shall we see light.
• Isa 12:3 : 3 Therefore with joy shall you draw water out of the wells of salvation.
• John 4:14 : 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
• Rev 14:1-3 : 1 And I looked, and behold, a Lamb stood on Mount Zion, and with him one hundred forty-four thousand, having his Father's name written on their foreheads. 2 And I heard a voice from heaven, like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of great thunder; and I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps. 3 And they sang a new song before the throne, and before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song except the one hundred forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.
• Rev 21:6 : 6 And he said to me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to him that is thirsty of the fountain of the water of life freely.
• Ps 46:4 : 4 There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
• 2 Sam 6:14 : 14 And David danced before the LORD with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod.
• 1 Chr 23:5 : 5 Moreover, four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.
• 1 Chr 25:1-6 : 1 Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for service the sons of Asaph, Heman, and Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, psalteries, and cymbals: and the number of the workers according to their service was: 2 Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, Joseph, Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the direction of Asaph, who prophesied according to the king's order. 3 Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the direction of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD. 4 Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth: 5 All these were the sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God, to exalt the horn. And God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. 6 All these were under the direction of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
• 1 Chr 15:16-29 : 16 And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding by lifting up the voice with joy. 17 So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and from his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and from the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah; 18 And with them their brethren of the second rank, Zechariah, Ben, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Benaiah, Maaseiah, Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, and Obededom, and Jeiel, the porters. 19 So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass; 20 And Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries tuned to Alamoth; 21 And Mattithiah, Elipheleh, Mikneiah, Obededom, Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the Sheminith to excel. 22 And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was in charge of the singing: he instructed about the singing, because he was skillful. 23 And Berechiah and Elkanah were doorkeepers for the ark. 24 And Shebaniah, Jehoshaphat, Nethaneel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before the ark of God; and Obededom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark. 25 So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy. 26 And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, that they offered seven bulls and seven rams. 27 And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who bore the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also wore an ephod of linen. 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of cornets, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps. 29 And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant of the LORD came to the city of David, that Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out at a window, saw King David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
• Ps 68:24-25 : 24 They have seen your goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. 25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the maidens playing with timbrels.
• Ps 149:3 : 3 Let them praise his name with the dance: let them sing praises to him with the tambourine and harp.
• Rev 22:1 : 1 And he showed me a pure river of the water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb.
• Rev 22:17 : 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him who hears say, Come. And let him who is thirsty come. And whoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 He who believes in me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water. 39 But this he spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.
• Jas 1:17 : 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
• John 1:16 : 16 And of his fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
• John 4:10 : 10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.