Passage Research
Psalm 76 — Sermon Preparation
An Asaph psalm celebrating God's triumph over enemy warriors in Judah, where his name is great and feared among kings. Below is a research summary for Psalm 76, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 90 / 77
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 6
- classic sermon excerpts
- 4
- preachers & commentators
Psalm 76 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָרֵא | yârêʼ | H3372 | 3 | fear, revere |
| חֵמָה | chêmâh | H2534 | 2 | heat, anger |
| שַׁי | shay | H7862 | 1 | gift, available |
| סֹךְ | çôk | H5520 | 1 | hut, entwined |
| נוּם | nûwm | H5123 | 1 | slumber |
| רָדַם | râdam | H7290 | 1 | stun, stupefy |
| רֶשֶׁף | resheph | H7565 | 1 | live coal, lightning |
How preachers through history handled this text
6 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 76, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“This psalm seems to have been penned upon occasion of some great victory obtained by the church over some threatening enemy or other, and designed to grace the triumph. The LXX. calls it, "A song upon the Assyrians," whence many good interpreters conjecture that it was penned when Sennacherib's army, then besieging Jerusalem, was entirely cut off by a destroying angel in Hezekiah's time; …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 76:1–30 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Salem— Ps 76:2
- Zion— Ps 76:2
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