What Does Psalm 63:2 Mean in the King James?
To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.
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 glory you seek is God’s weight made perceptible in the sanctuary.
THE MEANING
You desire to perceive God’s strength and weight, and the verse holds that desire alongside an encounter already remembered in the sanctuary. Power is not abstract here: God’s presence has become perceptible.
THE ROOT
כָּבוֹד
kavod
GROWS FROM
כבד
k-b-d
To be heavy; to carry weight.
כָּבוֹד (kavod, glory) carries the sense of weight and substance beneath the familiar word “glory.” The verse’s desire is to perceive God’s presence as something weighty, not merely as a distant display.
ALSO GROWS
kaved: Heavy; weighty.
כָּבֵד
This is the root’s physical sense, which makes the verse’s glory feel substantial and present.
kibbed: To honor; to treat as weighty.
כִּבֵּד
Honor and glory share the idea of assigning weight: what is honored is treated as significant.
עֹז
oz
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
To be strong or mighty.
The strength named here has a related branch that means stronghold or refuge. This lets power carry the possibility of shelter as well as force, held beside the weight of God’s presence.
ALSO GROWS
ʿaz: Strong; mighty; fierce.
עַז
It makes the strength in the verse active and forceful.
maʿoz: A stronghold; a refuge.
מָעוֹז
This related branch shows how strength can also be a place of shelter.
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
GROWS FROM
קדש
q-d-sh
To set apart.
The sanctuary is named through the idea of what is set apart. The verse places the perception of God’s weight within a space marked for encounter.
ALSO GROWS
qadosh: Set apart; distinct for a purpose.
קָדוֹשׁ
This branch reveals the quality carried by the sanctuary’s name.
miqdash: A sanctuary; a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
This branch makes explicit the link between the sanctuary and what is set apart.
THE PATTERN
God’s glory becomes perceptible as weight when divine presence is encountered, not merely named.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;THE THREAD
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.Exodus 33:18 uses the same Hebrew root כבד (k-b-d), meaning to be heavy or carry weight, for “glory.” That shared root makes the sanctuary encounter in Psalm 63:2 concrete: divine glory is perceived as weighty presence.
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