Psalms 68:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast taken captive captivity, Thou hast taken gifts for men, That even the refractory may rest, O Jah God.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רֶ֤כֶב אֱלֹהִ֗ים רִבֹּתַ֣יִם אַלְפֵ֣י שִׁנְאָ֑ן אֲדֹנָ֥י בָ֝֗ם סִינַ֥י בַּקֹּֽדֶשׁ׃

Transliteration

rekeb ʾĕlōhîm ribbōtayim ʾalpê šinʾān ʾădōnāy bām sînay ba-qōdeš

Grammar Details

• *rekeb*: masculine singular construct noun - 'chariot of'
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: masculine plural noun with singular meaning - 'God'
• *ribbōtayim*: feminine dual noun - 'twice ten thousand/myriads'
• *ʾalpê*: masculine plural construct noun - 'thousands of'
• *šinʾān*: masculine singular noun - 'repetition/abundance'
• *ʾădōnāy*: divine title - 'Lord'
• *bām*: preposition בְּ (among) with 3rd masculine plural suffix - 'among them'
• *sînay*: proper noun - 'Sinai'
• *ba-qōdeš*: preposition בְּ (in) + definite article + masculine singular noun - 'in the holy place'

Word Meanings

• *rekeb*: chariot/chariotry/war vehicle
• *ribbōtayim*: twice ten thousand/myriads/countless
• *šinʾān*: repetition/abundance/thousands upon thousands
• *qōdeš*: holy place/sanctuary/holiness

Referenced Verses

• Judg 5:12 : 12 Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song; Rise, Barak, and take captive thy captivity, Son of Abinoam.
• Ps 47:5 : 5 God hath gone up with a shout, Jehovah with the sound of a trumpet.
• Ps 78:60 : 60 And He leaveth the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,
• Ps 110:1 : 1 A Psalm of David. The affirmation of Jehovah to my Lord: `Sit at My right hand, Till I make thine enemies thy footstool.'
• Acts 1:2-9 : 2 till the day in which, having given command, through the Holy Spirit, to the apostles whom he did choose out, he was taken up, 3 to whom also he did present himself alive after his suffering, in many certain proofs, through forty days being seen by them, and speaking the things concerning the reign of God. 4 And being assembled together with them, he commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, `saith he,' `Ye did hear of me; 5 because John, indeed, baptized with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit -- after not many days.' 6 They, therefore, indeed, having come together, were questioning him, saying, `Lord, dost thou at this time restore the reign to Israel?' 7 and he said unto them, `It is not yours to know times or seasons that the Father did appoint in His own authority; 8 but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.' 9 And these things having said -- they beholding -- he was taken up, and a cloud did receive him up from their sight;
• Acts 2:4 : 4 and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues, according as the Spirit was giving them to declare.
• Ps 24:3 : 3 Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place?
• John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;
• John 16:7 : 7 `But I tell you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, for if I may not go away, the Comforter will not come unto you, and if I go on, I will send Him unto you;
• Rev 21:3 : 3 and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God `is' with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them -- their God,
• John 16:13-15 : 13 and when He may come -- the Spirit of truth -- He will guide you to all the truth, for He will not speak from Himself, but as many things as He will hear He will speak, and the coming things He will tell you; 14 He will glorify me, because of mine He will take, and will tell to you. 15 `All things, as many as the Father hath, are mine; because of this I said, That of mine He will take, and will tell to you;
• Ps 24:7-9 : 7 Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory! 8 Who `is' this -- `the king of glory?' Jehovah -- strong and mighty, Jehovah, the mighty in battle. 9 Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory! 10 Who `is' He -- this `king of glory?' Jehovah of hosts -- He `is' the king of glory! Selah.
• 2 Chr 6:18 : 18 (for is it true? -- God dwelleth with man on the earth! Lo, the heavens, and the heavens of the heavens, do not contain Thee, how much less this house that I have built?)
• Ps 7:7 : 7 And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,
• Col 1:18-19 : 18 And himself is the head of the body -- the assembly -- who is a beginning, a first-born out of the dead, that he might become in all `things' -- himself -- first, 19 because in him it did please all the fulness to tabernacle,
• Col 2:3 : 3 in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,
• Col 2:9 : 9 because in him doth tabernacle all the fulness of the Godhead bodily,
• 1 Tim 1:13-15 : 13 who before was speaking evil, and persecuting, and insulting, but I found kindness, because, being ignorant, I did `it' in unbelief, 14 and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that `is' in Christ Jesus: 15 stedfast `is' the word, and of all acceptation worthy, that Christ Jesus came to the world to save sinners -- first of whom I am;
• Titus 3:3-7 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another; 4 and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear 5 (not by works that `are' in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit, 6 which He poured upon us richly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour, 7 that having been declared righteous by His grace, heirs we may become according to the hope of life age-during.
• Heb 1:3 : 3 who being the brightness of the glory, and the impress of His subsistence, bearing up also the all things by the saying of his might -- through himself having made a cleansing of our sins, sat down at the right hand of the greatness in the highest,
• Heb 4:14 : 14 Having, then, a great chief priest passed through the heavens -- Jesus the Son of God -- may we hold fast the profession,
• Heb 6:20 : 20 whither a forerunner for us did enter -- Jesus, after the order of Melchisedek chief priest having become -- to the age.
• Heb 8:1 : 1 And the sum concerning the things spoken of `is': we have such a chief priest, who did sit down at the right hand of the throne of the greatness in the heavens,
• 1 Pet 3:22 : 22 who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven -- messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.
• Rev 1:20-2:1 : 20 the secret of the seven stars that thou hast seen upon my right hand, and the seven golden lamp-stands: the seven stars are messengers of the seven assemblies, and the seven lamp-stands that thou hast seen are seven assemblies. 1 `To the messenger of the Ephesian assembly write: These things saith he who is holding the seven stars in his right hand, who is walking in the midst of the seven lamp-stands -- the golden:
• Acts 2:23 : 23 this one, by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, being given out, having taken by lawless hands, having crucified -- ye did slay;
• Acts 2:33-41 : 33 at the right hand then of God having been exalted -- also the promise of the Holy Spirit having received from the Father -- he was shedding forth this, which now ye see and hear; 34 for David did not go up to the heavens, and he saith himself: The Lord saith to my lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 35 till I make thy foes thy footstool; 36 assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him -- this Jesus whom ye did crucify.' 37 And having heard, they were pricked to the heart; they say also to Peter, and to the rest of the apostles, `What shall we do, men, brethren?' 38 and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, 39 for to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all those afar off, as many as the Lord our God shall call.' 40 Also with many more other words he was testifying and exhorting, saying, `Be saved from this perverse generation;' 41 then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
• Acts 9:17 : 17 And Ananias went away, and did enter into the house, and having put upon him `his' hands, said, `Saul, brother, the Lord hath sent me -- Jesus who did appear to thee in the way in which thou wast coming -- that thou mayest see again, and mayest be filled with the Holy Spirit.'
• Rom 5:8 : 8 and God doth commend His own love to us, that, in our being still sinners, Christ did die for us;
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, 10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit. 11 And certain of you were these! but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were declared righteous, in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
• 1 Cor 15:45-47 : 45 so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam `is' for a life-giving spirit, 46 but that which is spiritual `is' not first, but that which `was' natural, afterwards that which `is' spiritual. 47 The first man `is' out of the earth, earthy; the second man `is' the Lord out of heaven;
• 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said -- `I will dwell in them, and will walk among `them', and I will be their God, and they shall be My people,
• Ps 132:13-14 : 13 For Jehovah hath fixed on Zion, He hath desired `it' for a seat to Himself, 14 This `is' My rest for ever and ever, Here do I sit, for I have desired it.
• Prov 1:22-23 : 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
• Isa 55:7 : 7 Forsake doth the wicked his way, And the man of iniquity his thoughts, And he returneth to Jehovah, and He pitieth him, And unto our God for He multiplieth to pardon.
• Isa 57:15 : 15 For thus said the high and exalted One, Inhabiting eternity, and holy `is' His name: `In the high and holy place I dwell, And with the bruised and humble of spirit, To revive the spirit of the humble, And to revive the heart of bruised ones,'
• Ezek 48:35 : 35 Round about `is' eighteen thousand, and the renown of the city `is' from the day Jehovah `is' there.'
• Matt 9:13 : 13 but having gone, learn ye what is, Kindness I will, and not sacrifice, for I did not come to call righteous men, but sinners, to reformation.'
• Mark 16:9 : 9 And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;
• Luke 24:47 : 47 and reformation and remission of sins to be proclaimed in his name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem:
• Luke 24:49 : 49 `And, lo, I do send the promise of my Father upon you, but ye -- abide ye in the city of Jerusalem till ye be clothed with power from on high.'
• Luke 24:51 : 51 and it came to pass, in his blessing them, he was parted from them, and was borne up to the heaven;
• John 14:16-17 : 16 and I will ask the Father, and another Comforter He will give to you, that he may remain with you -- to the age; 17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world is not able to receive, because it doth not behold him, nor know him, and ye know him, because he doth remain with you, and shall be in you.
• Eph 4:8-9 : 8 wherefore, he saith, `Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' -- 9 and that, he went up, what is it except that he also went down first to the lower parts of the earth? 10 he who went down is the same also who went up far above all the heavens, that He may fill all things --