What Does Psalm 106:47 Mean in the King James?
Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.
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
Deliverance here is not a private escape: it gathers the scattered so they can make God’s nature known in praise.
THE MEANING
The reader is brought out of constriction and gathered back into belonging; scattering is not the final shape. This shared return opens into thanks for God’s set-apart nature and praise that can be voiced together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that being scattered means being forgotten, or that deliverance ends with getting out alone: the prayer joins being brought out with being gathered into a shared purpose.
THE ROOT
הוֹשִׁיעֵנוּ
hoshieinu
GROWS FROM
ישע
Deliver, bring out into safety and spaciousness.
The word translated “save” carries the movement of being brought out of constriction into room to live. Its companion in the verse is gathering: deliverance opens the way back into belonging, not just away from danger.
ALSO GROWS
yeshuah: Deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
The same root names the deliverance the prayer asks to experience.
Yeshua: The name Yeshua, associated with deliverance
יֵשׁוּעַ
The name carries the same root’s sense of being brought out.
moshia: Deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who brings another out.
וְקַבְּצֵנוּ
veqabbetsenu
GROWS FROM
קבץ
Gather, collect, bring together.
“Gather us” means more than removing people from the nations: it gives the dispersed a shared shape again. The verse’s movement is from being scattered among peoples to belonging together in praise.
ALSO GROWS
yeqabbets: He gathers
יְקַבֵּץ
The same root describes the act of bringing separated people together.
meqabbets: One who gathers
מְקַבֵּץ
This form names the gathering action that the prayer asks to happen to the scattered.
לְהוֹדוֹת
lehodot
GROWS FROM
ידה
Acknowledge, give thanks, praise.
“Give thanks” in this verse is lehodot. Thanks here is an acknowledgment voiced toward God’s name (שֵׁם, shem, name as nature), not only a private feeling. The gathered people become a shared voice that names what God is like.
ALSO GROWS
todah: Thanksgiving, praise
תּוֹדָה
This noun gives thanks the shape of an expressed acknowledgment.
Yehudah: Judah, associated with praise
יְהוּדָה
The name’s biblical wordplay links the person and tribe with praise: “Now will I praise the LORD.”
hodu: Give thanks, praise
הוֹדוּ
This related form makes the act of acknowledgment audible.
THE PATTERN
Deliverance gathers scattered people into belonging, where they can voice praise together.
The Lord GOD which gathereth the outcasts of Israel saith, Yet will I gather others to him, beside those that are gathered unto him.And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of God that were scattered abroad.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 gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.“Gathered” here comes from קבץ (qavats, gather or collect), the same root as “gather us” in this verse. Psalm 107:3 opens the prayer’s compressed image into a gathering from every horizon.
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