Psalm 131
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Psalms 131— 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.
1My heart is not proud, O LORD, my eyes are not haughty. I do not aspire to great things or matters too lofty for me.
Rashi on Psalms 131:1
my heart was not haughty, etc. I did not behave with superiority. I did not make great things pleasures, buildings, and plantings as my son made. Behold I am with You like one who has no hands or feet, like an incomplete form lying before You.
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2Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Rashi on Psalms 131:2
I calmed and quieted my soul upon You, like a suckling who is placed upon his mother. גָמוּל is one who sucks the breasts.
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3O Israel, put your hope in the LORD, both now and forevermore.