Deuteronomy 32:3

Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

For I wil call on the name of the Lorde: Magnifie the might of oure God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֛י שֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה אֶקְרָ֑א הָב֥וּ גֹ֖דֶל לֵאלֹהֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

kî šēm YHWH ʾeqrāʾ hābû gōdel lēʾlōhênû

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *šēm*: masculine singular construct noun - name of
• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD/Yahweh
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will proclaim/call
• *hābû*: Qal imperative masculine plural - give/ascribe
• *gōdel*: masculine singular noun - greatness/magnificence
• *lēʾlōhênû*: preposition *lə* + masculine plural noun with 1st person plural suffix - to our God

Word Meanings

• *kî*: for/because/when
• *šēm*: name/reputation
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: I will proclaim/I will call out/I will invoke
• *hābû*: give/ascribe/attribute
• *gōdel*: greatness/magnitude/magnificence
• *ʾĕlōhênû*: our God/our deity

Referenced Verses

• Deut 3:24 : 24 O LORde Iehoua, thou hast begonne to shewe thy servaunte thy greatnesse and thy mightie hande for there is no God in heauen nor in erth that can do after thy workes and after thy power:
• Deut 5:24 : 24 and ye sayed: beholde, the Lorde oure God hath shewed us his glorye and his greatnesse, and we haue herde his voyce out of the fyre, and we haue sene this daye that God maye talke with a man and he yet lyue.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I have declared vnto them thy name and will declare it that the love wher wt thou hast loved me be in them and that I be in them.
• Eph 1:19 : 19 and what is the excedynge greatnes of his power to vs warde which beleve accordynge to the workynge of that his mighty power
• Matt 1:23 : 23 Beholde a mayde shall be with chylde and shall brynge forthe a sonne and they shall call his name Emanuel which is by interpretacion God with vs.
• John 17:6 : 6 I have declared thy name vnto ye men which thou gavest me out of the worlde. Thyne they were and thou gavest them me and they have kept thy sayinges.
• Exod 3:13-16 : 13 Than sayde Moses vnto God: when I come vnto the childern of Israell and saye vnto them, the God of youre fathers hath sent me vnto you, ad they saye vnto me, what ys his name, what answere shall I geuethem? 14 Then sayde God vnto Moses: I wilbe what I wilbe: ad he sayde, this shalt thou saye vnto the children of Israel: I wilbe dyd send me to you. 15 And God spake further vnto Moses: thus shalt thou saye vnto the children of Israell: the Lorde God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Iacob hath sent me vnto you: this is my name for euer, and this is my memoriall thorow out all generacyons. 16 Goo therfore and gather the elders of Israel to gether and saye vnto them: the Lorde God of youre fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob, appeared vnto me and sayde: I haue bene and sene both you and that whiche is done to you in Egipte.
• Exod 6:3 : 3 and I appeared vnto Abraham, Isaac and Iacob an allmightie God: but in my name Iehouah was I not knowne vnto them.
• Exod 20:24 : 24 An alter of erth thou shalt make vnto me ad there on offer thy burntofferinges ad thy peaceoffringes, and thy shepe ad thine oxen. And in all places where I shall put the remebraunce of my name, thither I will come vnto the and blesse the.
• Exod 33:19 : 19 And he sayde: I will make all my good goo before the, and I will be called in this name Iehouah before the, ad wil shewe mercy to whom I shew mercy, and will haue compassion on whom I haue compassion.
• Exod 34:5-7 : 5 And the Lorde desceded in the cloude, ad stode with him there: ad he called apo the name of the Lorde. 6 And whe the Lorde walked before him, he cryed: Lorde Lorde God full of compassion ad mercy, which art not lightly angrye but abundat in mercy ad trueth, 7 ad kepest mercy in store for thousandes, ad forgeuest wikednesse, trespace ad synne (for there is no man ynnocet before the) and visetest the wikydnesse of the fathers vpo the childern ad apon childerns childern, euen vnto the thryd ad fourth generatio.