Psalms 8:3 — King James Version← Study notes

“When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;”

Psalms 8:3 — Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 8:310 words

HebrewMeaning

מִ/פִּ֤יmipiy

from the mouth ofpronH6310

-ing to) · after · appointment · assent ···

עֽוֹלְלִ֨יםʿwōləliym

childrennounH5768

child · infant · little one

וְֽ/יֹנְקִים֮wəyōnəqiym

and suckling-childrenconjH3243

nurse · (give · make to) suck(-ing child · -ling)

יִסַּ֪דְתָּ֫yisadətā

you have establishedverbH3245

take counsel · establish · (lay the · lay for a) found ···

עֹ֥זʿōz

strengthnounH5797

loud · might · power · strength ···

לְמַ֥עַןləmaʿan

on account ofpronH4616

to the end that · for (to · ... 's sake) · lest ···

צוֹרְרֶ֑י/ךָṣwōrəreykā

opposers yourverbH6887

afflict · beseige · bind · (be in ···

לְ/הַשְׁבִּ֥יתləhašəbiyt

to put an end topronH7673

let · make to) cease · celebrate · cause to fail ···

א֝וֹיֵ֗בʾwōyēb

an enemyverbH341

foe

וּ/מִתְנַקֵּֽםwmitənaqēm

and an avengerconjH5358

self) · punish · revenge · surely ···

ℹWords are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 8:3

To the end, for the wine-presses, a psalm of David himself. 1. He seems to say nothing of wine-presses in the text of the Psalm of which this is the title. By which it appears, that one and the same thing is often signified in Scripture by many and various similitudes. We may then take wine-presses to be Churches, on the same principle by which we understand also by a threshing-floor the Church. For whether in the threshing-floor, or in the wine-press, there is nothing else…
Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 8 (excerpt)

Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain

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