Psalms 47:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

God has ascended his throne amid loud shouts; the LORD has ascended amid the blaring of ram’s horns.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִבְחַר־לָ֥נוּ אֶת־נַחֲלָתֵ֑נוּ אֶ֥ת גְּא֨וֹן יַעֲקֹ֖ב אֲשֶׁר־אָהֵ֣ב סֶֽלָה׃

Transliteration

He yibḥar-for us 'et-naḥălātēnû 'et gĕ'ôn ya'ăqōb which he 'āhēb selâ

Grammar Details

• *yibḥar*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he will choose'
• *lānû*: preposition + 1st person plural suffix - 'for us'
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *naḥălātēnû*: noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person plural suffix - 'our inheritance'
• *gĕ'ôn*: noun, masculine singular construct - 'pride/excellency of'
• *ya'ăqōb*: proper noun, masculine singular - 'Jacob'
• *'ăšer*: relative pronoun - 'which/whom'
• *'āhēb*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'he loved'
• *selâ*: musical notation

Word Meanings

• *yibḥar*: choose/select/elect
• *naḥălâ*: inheritance/heritage/possession
• *gĕ'ôn*: pride/excellency/majesty/glory
• *'āhēb*: loved/delighted in
• *selâ*: musical interlude/pause/lift up (meaning uncertain)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 68:33 : 33 to the one who rides through the sky from ancient times! Look! He thunders loudly.
• Ps 150:3 : 3 Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!
• 2 Sam 6:15 : 15 David and all Israel were bringing up the ark of the LORD, shouting and blowing trumpets.
• Ps 24:7-9 : 7 Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter! 8 Who is this majestic king? The LORD who is strong and mighty! The LORD who is mighty in battle! 9 Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter! 10 Who is this majestic king? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies! He is the majestic king!(Selah)
• Ps 68:17-19 : 17 God has countless chariots; they number in the thousands. The Lord comes from Sinai in holy splendor. 18 You ascend on high, you have taken many captives. You receive tribute from men, including even sinful rebels. Indeed the LORD God lives there! 19 The Lord deserves praise! Day after day he carries our burden, the God who delivers us.(Selah)
• Ps 68:24-25 : 24 They see your processions, O God– the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor. 25 Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.
• Num 10:1-9 : 1 The Blowing of Trumpets The LORD spoke to Moses: 2 “Make two trumpets of silver; you are to make them from a single hammered piece. You will use them for assembling the community and for directing the traveling of the camps. 3 When they blow them both, all the community must come to you to the entrance of the tent of meeting. 4 “But if they blow with one trumpet, then the leaders, the heads of the thousands of Israel, must come to you. 5 When you blow an alarm, then the camps that are located on the east side must begin to travel. 6 And when you blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that are located on the south side must begin to travel. An alarm must be sounded for their journeys. 7 But when you assemble the community, you must blow, but you must not sound an alarm. 8 The sons of Aaron, the priests, must blow the trumpets; and they will be to you for an eternal ordinance throughout your generations. 9 If you go to war in your land against an adversary who opposes you, then you must sound an alarm with the trumpets, and you will be remembered before the LORD your God, and you will be saved from your enemies. 10 “Also in the time when you rejoice, such as on your appointed festivals or at the beginnings of your months, you must blow with your trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, so that they may become a memorial for you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
• Num 23:21 : 21 He has not looked on iniquity in Jacob, nor has he seen trouble in Israel. The LORD their God is with them; his acclamation as king is among them.
• Josh 6:5 : 5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”
• 1 Chr 15:24 : 24 Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer the priests were to blow the trumpets before the ark of God; Obed-Edom and Jehiel were also guardians of the ark.
• 1 Chr 15:28 : 28 All Israel brought up the ark of the LORD’s covenant; they were shouting, blowing trumpets, sounding cymbals, and playing stringed instruments.
• 1 Chr 16:42 : 42 Heman and Jeduthun were in charge of the music, including the trumpets, cymbals, and the other musical instruments used in praising God. The sons of Jeduthun guarded the entrance.
• Luke 24:51-53 : 51 Now during the blessing he departed and was taken up into heaven. 52 So they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy, 53 and were continually in the temple courts blessing God.
• Acts 1:5-9 : 5 For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” 6 So when they had gathered together, they began to ask him,“Lord, is this the time when you are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” 7 He told them,“You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority. 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.” 9 After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. 10 As they were still staring into the sky while he was going, suddenly two men in white clothing stood near them 11 and said,“Men of Galilee, why do you stand here looking up into the sky? This same Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way you saw him go into heaven.”
• Ps 78:65 : 65 But then the Lord awoke from his sleep; he was like a warrior in a drunken rage.
• Ps 81:3 : 3 Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.
• Ps 98:6 : 6 With trumpets and the blaring of the ram’s horn, shout out praises before the king, the LORD!
• 1 Tim 3:16 : 16 And we all agree, our religion contains amazing revelation: He was revealed in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among Gentiles, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
• Rev 8:6-9 : 6 Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them. 7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there was hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was thrown at the earth so that a third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. 8 Then the second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain of burning fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea became blood, 9 and a third of the creatures living in the sea died, and a third of the ships were completely destroyed. 10 Then the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; it landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11 (Now the name of the star is Wormwood.) So a third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from these waters because they were poisoned. 12 Then the fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. And there was no light for a third of the day and for a third of the night likewise. 13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle flying directly overhead, proclaiming with a loud voice,“Woe! Woe! Woe to those who live on the earth because of the remaining sounds of the trumpets of the three angels who are about to blow them!”
• Rev 11:15 : 15 The Seventh Trumpet Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven saying:“The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.”
• 1 Cor 15:52 : 52 in a moment, in the blinking of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he captured captives; he gave gifts to men.” 9 Now what is the meaning of“he ascended,” except that he also descended to the lower regions, namely, the earth? 10 He, the very one who descended, is also the one who ascended above all the heavens, in order to fill all things.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.