Psalms 121
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.
4Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
6The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night.
7The LORD shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul.
8The LORD shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth, and even for evermore.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- שָׁמַרshâmarH81046× in this chapter
properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30685× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- לֹאlôʼH38083× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- אַלʼalH4082× in this chapter
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
- נוּםnûwmH51232× in this chapter
to slumber (from drowsiness)
- עֵזֶרʻêzerH58282× in this chapter
aid
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9352× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- הִנֵּהhinnêhH20091× in this chapter
lo!
- הַרharH20221× in this chapter
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- יָדyâdH30271× in this chapter
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
- יוֹמָםyôwmâmH31191× in this chapter
daily
- יָמִיןyâmîynH32251× in this chapter
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
- יָצָאyâtsâʼH33181× in this chapter
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
- יָרֵחַyârêachH33941× in this chapter
the moon
- יָשֵׁןyâshênH34621× in this chapter
properly, to be slack or languid, i.e. (by implication) sleep (figuratively, to die); also to grow old, stale or inveterate
- יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêlH34781× in this chapter
Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- כֹּלkôlH36051× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- אַיִןʼayinH3701× in this chapter
where? (only in connection with prepositional prefix, whence)
- לַיִלlayilH39151× in this chapter
properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity
- אֵלʼêlH4131× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- מוֹטmôwṭH41321× in this chapter
a wavering, i.e. fall; by implication, a pole (as shaking); hence, a yoke (as essentially a bent pole)
- מַעֲלָהmaʻălâhH46091× in this chapter
elevation, i.e. the act (literally, a journey to a higher place, figuratively, a thought arising), or (concretely) the condition (literally, a step or grademark, figuratively, a superiority of station); specifically a climactic progression (in certain Psalms)
- נָכָהnâkâhH52211× in this chapter
to strike (lightly or severely, literally or figuratively)
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshH53151× in this chapter
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- נָשָׂאnâsâʼH53751× in this chapter
to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
- נָתַןnâthanH54141× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- עַדʻadH57041× in this chapter
as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)
- עוֹלָםʻôwlâmH57691× in this chapter
properly, concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally, time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practically) eternity; frequentatively, adverbial (especially with prepositional prefix) always
- עַיִןʻayinH58691× in this chapter
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
- עַלʻalH59211× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- עִםʻimH59731× in this chapter
adverb or preposition, with (i.e. in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English)
- עָשָׂהʻâsâhH62131× in this chapter
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
- עַתָּהʻattâhH62581× in this chapter
at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive
- צֵלtsêlH67381× in this chapter
shade, whether literal or figurative
- רֶגֶלregelH72721× in this chapter
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
- רַעraʻH74511× in this chapter
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7761× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- שִׁירshîyrH78921× in this chapter
a song; abstractly, singing
- שָׁמַיִםshâmayimH80641× in this chapter
the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
- שֶׁמֶשׁshemeshH81211× in this chapter
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (architectural) a notched battlement