What Does Psalm 105:1 Mean in the King James?
O give thanks unto the LORD; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The verse joins God’s deeds to his name (שֵׁם, shem: nature), so gratitude becomes public recognition of who God is.
THE MEANING
Gratitude takes shape as turning toward God’s nature and making the evidence of that nature visible among people. As you perceive what God does, naming it aloud carries that recognition outward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that gratitude is only an inward feeling, or that calling on God’s name is a phrase detached from God’s character.
THE ROOT
הוֹדִיעוּ
hôdîʿû
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
Know, perceive, recognize through encounter.
“Make known” comes from the root for knowing: the public telling grows from what is truly perceived. The verse links knowing God’s deeds with making them known among people.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: Know or perceive.
יָדַע
This is the seed beneath “make known”: the announcement carries recognition of what God does.
daʿat: Knowledge or understanding.
דַּעַת
The shared root ties public testimony to knowing, rather than to repeating words without recognition.
קִרְאוּ
qirʾû
GROWS FROM
קרא
q-r-ʾ
Call out, summon, proclaim.
The call upon God’s name carries a public edge: this root also speaks of proclaiming and reading aloud. The verse moves from calling on God’s nature to making God’s deeds known.
ALSO GROWS
miqraʾ: A gathering or something read aloud.
מִקְרָא
The branch shows how calling can become shared, public declaration.
qeriʾah: A call or a reading.
קְרִיאָה
This branch joins invocation with voiced words, echoing the verse’s movement from calling to telling.
THE PATTERN
Encountering God’s nature turns gratitude into a public telling of what God has done.
And in that day shall ye say, Praise the LORD, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name is exalted.Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:THE THREAD
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.Psalm 105 moves from calling on God’s name to making God’s deeds known; Psalm 9 names the link as knowing that name. Since the name holds God’s nature, the public telling grows from lived recognition of who God is.
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