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Psalms 8:4 — King James Version← Study notes

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?


Psalms 8:4Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 8:49 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּֽיkiy
ifconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
אֶרְאֶ֣הʾerəʾeh
I will seeverbH7200
appear · approve · behold · certainly ···
שָׁ֭מֶי/ךָšāmeykā
heavens yournounH8064
astrologer · heaven
מַעֲשֵׂ֣יmaʿăśēy
the worksnounH4639
art · bakemeat · business · deed ···
אֶצְבְּעֹתֶ֑י/ךָʾeṣəbəʿōteykā
fingers yournounH676
toe
יָרֵ֥חַyārēḥa
the moonnounH3394
וְ֝/כוֹכָבִ֗יםwəkwōkābiym
and the starsconjH3556
אֲשֶׁ֣רʾăšer
whichparticleH834
after · alike · because · every ···
כּוֹנָֽנְתָּהkwōnānətāh
you have establishedverbH3559
confirm · direct · faithfulness · fashion ···
Words 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 8:4

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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