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My embryoגָּלְמִיyour eyesעֵינֶיךָsaw;רָאוּand in your bookוְעַל סִפְרְךָall of themכֻּלָּםwere written,יִכָּתֵבוּthe daysיָמִיםthat were formed,יֻצָּרוּwhen there was notוְלוֹoneאֶחָדof them.בָּהֶם
Psalms 139:16
Study it in the app“My embryo your eyes saw; and in your book all of them were written, the days that were formed, when there was not one of them.”
David finds himself woven by God in his mother's wombCreationDavid: God wove him in the womb and saw his embryoPurpose
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 139:16, word by word
- My embryoגָּלְמִgalmi
unformed body, embryo
A mass still without form, like the embryo before it develops. It appears only in Psalm 139:16.
Where else “galmi” appears- your eyesעֵינֶיene
eye
The organ with which one sees; so "lift the eyes" means to look.
Where else “ene” appears- sawרָאוּrau
see
To see with one's eyes.
Where else “rau” appears- and in your bookסִפְרְsifr
book
A scroll of skin or papyrus on which law, history or a record is written.
Where else “sifr” appears- were writtenיִכָּתֵבוּyikatevu
write
To put words in writing, in a book or tablet, so that they last.
Where else “yikatevu” appears- the daysיָמִיםyamim
time
Literally "the days": a period, an age, or the span of someone's life.
Where else “yamim” appears- that were formedיֻצָּרוּyutsaru
mold
To mold, as God molded man from dust.
Where else “yutsaru” appears- oneאֶחָדechad
one
The number one; just one and no more.
Where else “echad” appears
Translation note
The end is difficult in Hebrew: the written text says “and not [there was] one of them,” and the reading of the scribes, “and to him [there was] one of them.”
The context
15My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, embroidered in the depths of the earth.
16 · This verse (above)
17And to me how precious are your thoughts, El; how vast is the sum of them.