Psalms 24:9
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
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ASV
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
KJV
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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9 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| שְׂא֤וּ | se.'U | lift up | H5375 → |
| שְׁעָרִ֨ים׀ | she.'a.Rim | O gates | H8179 → |
| רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם | ra.shei.Khem | heads your | H7218 → |
| וּ֭שְׂאוּ | U.se.'u | and lift up | H5375 → |
| פִּתְחֵ֣י | pit.Chei | O doors of | H6607 → |
| עוֹלָ֑ם | o.Lam | antiquity | H5769 → |
| וְ֝יָבֹא | Ve.ya.vo' | so he may come | H935 → |
| מֶ֣לֶךְ | Me.lekh | [the] king of | H4428 → |
| הַכָּבֽוֹד׃ | ha.ka.Vod | <the> glory | H3519 → |
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