Psalms 21:5

World English Bible (2000)

His glory is great in your salvation. You lay honor and majesty on him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫חַיִּ֤ים ׀ שָׁאַ֣ל מִ֭מְּךָ נָתַ֣תָּה לּ֑וֹ אֹ֥רֶךְ יָ֝מִ֗ים עוֹלָ֥ם וָעֶֽד׃‬

Transliteration

ḥayyîm šāʾal from-you nātattā lô ʾōrek yāmîm ʿôlām wāʿed

Grammar Details

• *ḥayyîm*: masculine plural noun - life
• *šāʾal*: 3rd person masculine singular Qal perfect - he asked
• *nātattā*: 2nd person masculine singular Qal perfect - you gave
• *lô*: preposition lamed + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - to him
• *ʾōrek*: masculine singular construct noun - length of
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural noun - days
• *ʿôlām*: masculine singular noun - forever/eternity
• *wāʿed*: conjunction waw + masculine singular noun - and perpetuity

Word Meanings

• *ḥayyîm*: life/living/lifetime
• *šāʾal*: asked/requested/petitioned
• *ʾōrek*: length/duration/extension
• *yāmîm*: days/lifetime/time
• *ʿôlām*: forever/eternal/everlasting
• *wāʿed*: perpetuity/eternity/continuing

Referenced Verses

• 2 Sam 7:8-9 : 8 Now therefore you shall tell my servant David this, 'Thus says Yahweh of Armies, "I took you from the sheep pen, from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my people, over Israel. 9 I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.
• 2 Sam 7:19 : 19 This was yet a small thing in your eyes, Lord Yahweh; but you have spoken also of your servant's house for a great while to come; and this after the way of men, Lord Yahweh!
• 1 Chr 17:11-15 : 11 It shall happen, when your days are fulfilled that you must go to be with your fathers, that I will set up your seed after you, who shall be of your sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 12 He shall build me a house, and I will establish his throne forever. 13 I will be his father, and he shall be my son. I will not take my loving kindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before you; 14 but I will settle him in my house and in my kingdom forever. His throne shall be established forever."'" 15 According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so Nathan spoke to David.
• 1 Chr 17:27 : 27 Now it has pleased you to bless the house of your servant, that it may continue forever before you; for you, Yahweh, have blessed, and it is blessed forever."
• Ps 3:3 : 3 But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
• Ps 8:5 : 5 For you have made him a little lower than God, and crowned him with glory and honor.
• Ps 62:7 : 7 With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
• Ps 96:6 : 6 Honor and majesty are before him. Strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.
• Ps 110:1 : 1 Yahweh says to my Lord, "Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet."
• Isa 49:5-7 : 5 Now says Yahweh who formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, and that Israel be gathered to him (for I am honorable in the eyes of Yahweh, and my God is become my strength); 6 yes, he says, "It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth." 7 Thus says Yahweh, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers: "Kings shall see and arise; princes, and they shall worship; because of Yahweh who is faithful, [even] the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen you."
• Isa 63:1 : 1 Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? "It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save."
• Matt 28:18 : 18 Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, "All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
• John 13:31-32 : 31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. 32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
• John 17:1 : 1 Jesus said these things, and lifting up his eyes to heaven, he said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that your Son may also glorify you;
• John 17:5 : 5 Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.
• John 17:22 : 22 The glory which you have given me, I have given to them; that they may be one, even as we are one;
• Eph 1:20-22 : 20 which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places, 21 far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come. 22 He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things for the assembly,
• Phil 2:9-9 : 9 Therefore God also highly exalted him, and gave to him the name which is above every name; 10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, those on earth, and those under the earth, 11 and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
• Heb 8:1 : 1 Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this. We have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone into heaven, angels and authorities and powers being made subject to him.
• Rev 5:8-9 : 8 Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints. 9 They sang a new song, saying, "You are worthy to take the book, and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood, out of every tribe, language, people, and nation, 10 and made us kings and priests to our God, and we will reign on earth." 11 I saw, and I heard something like a voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousands of ten thousands, and thousands of thousands; 12 saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!" 13 I heard every created thing which is in heaven, on the earth, under the earth, on the sea, and everything in them, saying, "To him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb be the blessing, the honor, the glory, and the dominion, forever and ever! Amen!"