What Does Psalm 26:7 Mean in the King James?
That I may publish with the voice of thanksgiving, and tell of all thy wondrous works.
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
Thanksgiving here becomes audible, then becomes an account of the particular works that inspire it.
THE MEANING
Here, gratitude enters shared hearing instead of remaining an unspoken feeling. You recount particular works, giving wonder names and details without exhausting what makes them wondrous.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that gratitude is only an inward feeling dissolves here: the verse joins thanksgiving to a voice and to named acts.
THE ROOT
לְהַשְׁמִיעַ
lehashmi'a
GROWS FROM
שמע
Hear or listen; in this verb form, cause to hear, make heard.
The word translated “publish” carries the sense of making something heard. Thanksgiving is voiced into another person’s hearing, where it can become shared testimony.
ALSO GROWS
shama: Hear, listen
שָׁמַע
The root joins the act of speaking with the hearing that receives it.
shemu'ah: Report, news
שְׁמוּעָה
A report is something heard and passed on, echoing the verse’s movement from voiced thanks to testimony.
וּלְסַפֵּר
ulesapper
GROWS FROM
ספר
Count, recount, relate.
The root behind “tell” also carries the sense of counting or recounting. The verse’s testimony takes shape by naming the works one by one, as a record rather than a vague impression.
ALSO GROWS
sefer: Book, written record
סֵפֶר
A spoken account and a written record share the root’s sense of recounting what happened.
mispar: Number, count
מִסְפָּר
This branch makes the counting sense visible: telling can mean attending to each work in turn.
נִפְלְאוֹתֶיךָ
nifla'otekha
GROWS FROM
פלא
Be extraordinary, marvelous, beyond the ordinary.
“wondrous works” in this verse is nifla'otekha. The word marks works that exceed the ordinary. The verse holds two things together: these works can be named and recounted, yet their wonder is not used up by the telling.
ALSO GROWS
pele: Wonder, marvel
פֶּלֶא
This noun carries the same sense of what is extraordinary in the works being recounted.
nifla: Wonderful, extraordinary
נִפְלָא
This related form shows that the verse names the works by their quality of surpassing the ordinary.
THE PATTERN
Gratitude becomes witness when praise is voiced and the works behind it are named.
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving, and declare his works with rejoicing.Howbeit Jesus suffered him not, but saith unto him, Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee.THE THREAD
To the chief Musician upon Muthlabben, A Psalm of David. I will praise thee, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.Psalm 9:1 uses the same Hebrew word for “all thy marvellous works” as Psalm 26:7 uses for “all thy wondrous works.” Read together, the verses show the recounting of those works as the way praise becomes audible.
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