Psalm 114
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Psalms 114— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, which is the key every lexicon and concordance uses (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets name a word that does a grammatical job rather than carrying a meaning, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
1When Israel departed from Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of foreign tongue,
Rashi on Psalms 114:1
a people of a strange tongue With another language, which is not the Holy Tongue. A similar expression is (Isa.:19): “A people of a strange tongue you shall not see, a people of speech too obscure, etc.
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Aramaic Targum to Psalms 114:1
On Israel's leaving Egypt, the house of Jacob from barbarian nation s,
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2Judah became God’s sanctuary, and Israel His dominion.
Rashi on Psalms 114:2
Judah became His holy nation He took Judah as the lot of His portion and His sanctity, and even they sanctified His name when they descended into the sea, as the matter that is stated (above: 28): “the princes of Judah pelt them with stones.
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Aramaic Targum to Psalms 114:2
the assembly of the house of Judah was taken for His holiness, Israel for His rule.
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3The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;
Rashi on Psalms 114:3
the Jordan turned backward because all the water of Creation split.
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4the mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs.
5Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
6O mountains, that you skipped like rams, O hills, like lambs?
7Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the God of Jacob,
8who turned the rock into a pool, the flint into a fountain of water!