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Psalms 134:2

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Lift up your hands to the sanctuary And bless the LORD.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, and bless ye the LORD.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless Jehovah.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Lift up your hand in holiness, and bless Yahweh.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— In the nights lift up your hands to the holy places, and bless ye the Lord.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Lift vp your hands to the Sanctuarie, and praise the Lord.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Lift vp your hands [in] the Sanctuary: & blesse the LORD.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Lift up your hands towards the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Lift up your hands by night in the sanctuaries, and bless the Lord.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless Yahweh.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Lift up 5375
{5375} Prime
נָשָׂא
nasa'
{naw-saw'}
A primitive root; to lift, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, absolutely and relatively.
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
your hands 3027
{3027} Prime
יָד
yad
{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote.
[in] the sanctuary, 6944
{6944} Prime
קֹדֶשׁ
qodesh
{ko'-desh}
From H6942; a sacred place or thing; rarely abstractly sanctity.
and bless 1288
{1288} Prime
בּרךְ
barak
{baw-rak'}
A primitive root; to kneel; by implication to bless God (as an act of adoration), and (vice-versa) man (as a benefit); also (by euphemism) to curse (God or the king, as treason).
z8761
<8761> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 446
x853
(0853) Complement
אֵת
'eth
{ayth}
Apparently contracted from H0226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely).
Yähwè יָהוֶה. 3068
{3068} Prime
יְהֹוָה
Y@hovah
{yeh-ho-vaw'}
From H1961; (the) self Existent or eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 134:1-2.


Psalms 134:2

_ _ Lift up your hands — (Compare Psalms 28:2).

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 134:1-3.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 134:2

Lift up your (b) hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.

(b) For their charge was not only to keep the temple, but to pray there and to give God thanks.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Lift up:

Psalms 28:2 Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Psalms 63:4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms 141:2 Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.
Lamentations 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Lamentations 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.

in the sanctuary:
or, in holiness,
Psalms 26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
1 Timothy 2:8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
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Ps 26:6; 28:2; 63:4; 141:2. Lm 2:19; 3:41. 1Ti 2:8.

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