Passage Research
Psalm 30 — Sermon Preparation
Below is a research summary for Psalm 30, 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
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 30 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָדָה | yâdâh | H3034 | 3 | throw, revere |
| זָמַר | zâmar | H2167 | 2 | touch, play |
| רָצוֹן | râtsôwn | H7522 | 2 | delight |
| חָנַן | chânan | H2603 | 2 | bend, favor |
| יָרַד | yârad | H3381 | 2 | descend, go downwards |
| עוֹלָם | ʻôwlâm | H5769 | 2 | concealed, vanishing |
| שֶׁלֶו | shelev | H7959 | 1 | security |
How preachers through history handled this text
8 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 30, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This is a psalm of thanksgiving for the great deliverances which God had wrought for David, penned upon occasion of the dedicating of his house of cedar, and sung in that pious solemnity, though there is not any thing in it that has particular reference to that occasion. Some collect from divers passages in the psalm itself that it was penned upon his recovery from a dangerous fit of sickness, which might happen to be about the time of the dedication of his house. I. He here praises God for the deliverances he had wrought for him, ver. 1-3. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 30:1–30 (Public Domain)
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