Passage Research
Psalm 21 — Sermon Preparation
A royal thanksgiving after victory, praising God who granted the king's heart's desire and crowned him with glory and honor. Below is a research summary for Psalm 21, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 8
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 21 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| שִׁית | shîyth | H7896 | 4 | place |
| עַד | ʻad | H5703 | 2 | terminus, duration |
| בְּרָכָה | Bᵉrâkâh | H1293 | 2 | benediction, prosperity |
| יְשׁוּעָה | yᵉshûwʻâh | H3444 | 2 | saved, deliverance |
| עֹז | ʻôz | H5797 | 2 | strength, force |
| אֵשׁ | ʼêsh | H784 | 2 | fire |
| מָצָא | mâtsâʼ | H4672 | 2 | come, appear |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 21, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“As the foregoing psalm was a prayer for the king that God would protect and prosper him, so this is a thanksgiving for the success God had blessed him with. Those whom we have prayed for we ought to give thanks for, and particularly for kings, in whose prosperity we share. They are here taught, I. To congratulate him on his victories, and the honour he had achieved, ver. 1-6. II. To confide in the power of God for the completing of the ruin of the enemies of his kingdom, ver. 7-13. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 21:1–30 (Public Domain)
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