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Psalms 106:22

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Psalms 106:22 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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Psalms 106:22 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/psalms/106/22.

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Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    wonders in the land of Ham, awesome at the Sea of Reeds.

unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).

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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, `And' terrible things by the Red Sea.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red Sea.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    Wonderous woorkes in the lande of Ham, and fearefull things by the red Sea.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    wondrous works in the land of Cham: terrible things in the Red Sea.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, Of fearful things by the sea of Suph.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Of wonderful things in the land of Ham, || Of fearful things by the Sea of Suph.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    He had done wonderful things in the land of Ham and mighty acts at the Sea of Reeds.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    wonders in the land of Ham, awesome at the Sea of Reeds.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    wondrous works in the land of Ham, and awesome things by the Sea of Suf.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, and terrible things by the Red sea.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    performing miracles in the land of Ham, doing amazing things at the Red Sea.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    Works of wonder in the land of Ham, and things of fear by the Red Sea.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.

Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).

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Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is חָ֑ם Ham H2526 — appearing just 16 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

חָ֑ם Ham H2526 occurs in 15 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 2 verbs
  • 4 nouns
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • נִ֭פְלָאוֹת Niphal · Participle Active
  • נ֝וֹרָא֗וֹת Niphal · Participle Active

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 14 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the same length.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 7 Hebrew tokens and 8 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

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Topical passages linked to Psalms 106:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Psalms 78:51 And struck all the firstborn in Egypt, The chief of their strength in the tents of Ham.
  • Psalms 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt. Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
  • Exodus 14:25–28 He took off their chariot wheels, and they drove them heavily; so that the Egyptians said, "Let's flee from the face of Israel, for Yahweh fights for them against the Egyptians!"
  • Exodus 15:10 You blew with your wind. The sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
  • Psalms 105:27–36 They performed miracles among them, And wonders in the land of Ham.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

You’re reading Greek Psalm 105 (Hebrew Psalm 106). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.

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Hebrew Psalms 106:22 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

נִ֭פְלָאוֹת בְּאֶ֣רֶץ חָ֑ם נ֝וֹרָא֗וֹת עַל יַם סֽוּף

Wondrous works in the land of Ham, And awesome things by the Red Sea.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Greek Psalm 105:22 Septuagint · lemma form

θαυμαστός ἐν γῆ χαμ φοβερός ἐπί θάλασσα ἐρυθρός

wondrous works in the land of Cham, and terrible things at the Red Sea.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Commentary

Notes on Psalms 106:22 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Psa 106:22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, [and] terrible things by the Red sea.

Ver. 22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham] i.e. Among the Egyptians, Ham’s posterity.

And terrible things by the Red Sea] All which were buried, together with the remembrance of God, the doer.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

J. A. Alexander on Psalms

Joseph Addison Alexander

22. (Psa 106:22) Wonderful (things) in the land of Ham, terrible (things) on the Red Sea. Wonderful, literally (things) made wonderful or strangely done. Terrible, literally to be dreaded. Compare Psa 105:23; Psa 105:27.

Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

106:22 The land of Ham here means Egypt (106:21).

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 22. Wondrous works in the land of Ham] The plagues inflicted on the Egyptians. Egypt is called the Land of Ham or Cham, because it was peopled by Misraim the son of Cham.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(22) Land of Ham.—A synonym for Egypt, peculiar to the historic psalms (Psa_78:51; Psa_105:23; Psa_105:27).

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

Wondrous works in the land of Ham,.... The same with Egypt; Mizraim, from whence Egypt had its name, being the son of Ham; See Gill on Psa 78:51. See Gill on Psa 105:23, and these wondrous things are the same plagues as before, so called because they exceeded the power of nature; the magicians themselves confessed the finger of God in one of them; and they were all of them such as might be truly said to be miracles.

And terrible things by the Red sea; or "in it", as the Syriac and, other versions; as the utter destruction of Pharaoh and his army, not one being left, which was doing terrible things in righteousness; and by which it appeared that with God is terrible majesty; and who shows himself to be terrible in his works, and even to the kings and princes of the earth; but all these things were soon forgot, which it might have been thought, being so amazing and terrible, would have made a lasting impression on them.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

The Treasury of David

Charles H. Spurgeon

Ver. 22. Land of Ham. Egypt is called the land of Ham, or rather Cham, Mx, because it was peopled by Mizraim, the son of Ham, and grandson of Noah. Plutarch (De Iside and Osiride) informs us, that the Egyptians called their country Chmia, Chemia; and the Copts give it the name of Chmi, Chemi, to the present day. Comprehensive Bible.

Psalms 106:23*

Charles H. Spurgeon's The Treasury of David (1869–1885) — public domain. Psalms only. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

22. For the places here named see Psa_106:9, and Psa_105:23

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Wondrous works in the land of Ham. (comp. Psa_78:51 Psa_105:23, Psa_105:27, for the expression "land of Ham;" and for the "works" themselves, see Exodus 7-12) And terrible things by the Red Sea. (see Exo_14:24, Exo_14:27-30)

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

the land of Ham

This refers to the land where Ham's descendants lived. AT: "the land where Ham's descendant live" (See: Possession)

mighty acts

"awesome things"

stood in the breach before him, to turn away his anger from destroying them

Here David speaks about Moses persuading Yahweh not to destroy the Israelites as intervening with him in the breach. AT: "stood between Yahweh and the Israelites and begged Yahweh to not destroy them" (See: Metaphor)

translationWords

amazed

Ham

might

Sea of Reeds

decree

chosen one

turn

anger

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.

Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Châm (“Ham”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. What does “Ham” (Châm) contribute to the verse as a whole?
  2. How does Genesis 5:32, which shares the word «Ham», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «נִ֭פְלָאוֹת» is a Niphal Participle Active verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and J. A. Alexander on Psalms read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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