Psalm 19/Notes/Lexical.V.2
From Psalms: Layer by Layer
- Sky (הַשָּׁמַיִם):
- Declaring honor (מְֽסַפְּרִ֥ים כְּבֽוֹד): Cf. Psa 96:3 - סַפְּר֣וּ בַגּוֹיִ֣ם כְּבוֹד֑וֹ בְּכָל־הָֽ֝עַמִּ֗ים נִפְלְאוֹתָֽיו׃.
- Honor (כְּבוֹד):
- Firmament (הָרָקִיעַ):
- For the parallel of ספר and הגיד, see Job 12:7-8.
- Telling about (מַגִּיד): "The most frequent content of such recounting, however, is Yahweh’s mighty salvific deeds; this is especially the case in the psalms... The salvific deeds themselves are described in a summary fashion as nip̱lāʾôṯ (Ps. 9:2[1]; 26:7; 75:2[1]; 96:3 [1 Ch. 16:24]) or as maʿaśîm (Ps. 107:22; 118:17; cf. ʿāśâ in 66:16), or are circumscribed with the noun šēm as an expression of Yahweh’s greatness and might as manifested in such deeds (22:23[22]; 102:22[21]; Sir. 51:1; cf. also geḏullâ in Ps. 145:6, kāḇôḏ in 96:3 [1 Ch. 16:24]..." (TDOT).