Study it in the app“These things I remember, and I pour out within me my soul: how I would pass along with the throng; I would walk with them to the house of Elohim, with the voice of shouts of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.”
These thingsאֵלֶּהI remember,אֶזְכְּרָהand I pour outוְאֶשְׁפְּכָהwithin meעָלַיmy soul:נַפְשִׁיhowכִּיI would pass alongאֶעֱבֹרwith the throng;בַּסָּךְI would walkאֶדַּדֵּwith themםtoעַדthe houseבֵּיתof Elohim,אֱלֹהִיםwith the voiceבְּקוֹלof shouts of joyרִנָּהand thanksgiving,וְתוֹדָהa multitudeהָמוֹןkeeping festival.חוֹגֵג
remember
To bring something to mind and keep it present so as to act on it.
Where else “ezkra” appearsspill
To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.
Where else “eshpcha” appearssoul
A person's innermost self: what they feel and desire.
Where else “nafshi” appearspass
To get over a river, or go through a land.
Where else “eevor” appearsthrong
A dense multitude of people, a throng. The word appears only once in the Bible; it comes from a root meaning "to interweave", like a thicket.
Where else “sach” appearsgo slowly
A rare verb whose sense is not fully certain: to walk slowly, with a gentle or solemn step, as one who goes in a procession.
Where else “edade” appearstemple
The temple: "the house of YHWH".
Where else “bet” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsvoice
What is heard when someone speaks or sings; also the voice of God.
Where else “kol” appearsjoyful shout
Glad cries or songs.
Where else “rina” appearsthanksgiving
Grateful praise aloud for what God has done.
Where else “toda” appearsmultitude
Many people gathered, or a great number of something, like an army.
Where else “hamon” appearskeep a festival
To rejoice before YHWH on a holy day.
Where else “chogeg” appears“I would walk with them”: the Hebrew verb is rare and its exact sense is not certain; it may be “I would walk slowly with them” or “I would lead them.” It recalls the processions going up to the temple at the feasts.
3My tears have been bread for me day and night, while they say to me all the day, “Where is your Elohim?”
4 · This verse (above)
5Why are you cast down, my soul, and agitated within me? Await Elohim, for I will yet give him thanks, the salvations of his face.
