Psalms 26:8

World English Bible (2000)

Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְֽהוָ֗ה אָ֭הַבְתִּי מְע֣וֹן בֵּיתֶ֑ךָ וּ֝מְק֗וֹם מִשְׁכַּ֥ן כְּבוֹדֶֽךָ׃

Transliteration

YHWH ʾāhaḇtî məʿôn bêṯeḵā and-məqôm miškan kəḇôḏeḵā.

Grammar Details

• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ʾāhaḇtî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have loved
• *məʿôn*: noun construct - dwelling/habitation of
• *bêṯeḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your house
• *məqôm*: noun construct - place of
• *miškan*: noun construct - tabernacle/dwelling of
• *kəḇôḏeḵā*: noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your glory

Word Meanings

• *ʾāhaḇtî*: I have loved/I love
• *məʿôn* *bêṯeḵā*: habitation of your house/dwelling of your house
• *məqôm* *miškan* *kəḇôḏeḵā*: place of the dwelling of your glory/location where your glory abides

Referenced Verses

• Luke 2:49 : 49 He said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know that I must be in my Father's house?"
• John 2:14-17 : 14 He found in the temple those who sold oxen, sheep, and doves, and the changers of money sitting. 15 He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables. 16 To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!" 17 His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will eat me up."
• Luke 19:45-47 : 45 He entered into the temple, and began to drive out those who bought and sold in it, 46 saying to them, "It is written, 'My house is a house of prayer,' but you have made it a 'den of robbers'!" 47 He was teaching daily in the temple, but the chief priests and the scribes and the leading men among the people sought to destroy him.
• Exod 25:21-22 : 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
• Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of Yahweh filled the tabernacle. 35 Moses wasn't able to enter into the Tent of Meeting, because the cloud stayed on it, and Yahweh's glory filled the tabernacle.
• 2 Sam 15:25 : 25 The king said to Zadok, "Carry back the ark of God into the city. If I find favor in the eyes of Yahweh, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation;
• 1 Chr 29:3 : 3 In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house,
• 2 Chr 5:14-6:2 : 14 so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of Yahweh filled the house of God. 1 Then Solomon said, "Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. 2 But I have built you a house of habitation, and a place for you to dwell in forever."
• Ps 27:4-6 : 4 One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after, that I may dwell in the house of Yahweh all the days of my life, to see Yahweh's beauty, and to inquire in his temple. 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tabernacle he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock. 6 Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me. I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
• Ps 42:4 : 4 These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
• Ps 63:2-3 : 2 So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory. 3 Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.
• Ps 84:1-2 : 1 How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Armies! 2 My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
• Ps 84:10 : 10 For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.
• Ps 122:1-4 : 1 I was glad when they said to me, "Let's go to Yahweh's house!" 2 Our feet are standing within your gates, Jerusalem; 3 Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together; 4 where the tribes go up, even Yah's tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of Yahweh.
• Ps 122:9 : 9 For the sake of the house of Yahweh our God, I will seek your good. A Song of Ascents.
• Isa 38:20 : 20 Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
• Isa 38:22 : 22 Hezekiah also had said, "What is the sign that I will go up to the house of Yahweh?"
• Luke 2:46 : 46 It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.