Psalms 136:24

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

And has delivered us from our adversaries; For his loving kindness endures forever:

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וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ

pâraq

H6561

“and · to tear away · us”

Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Plural

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 27:40

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1828

to tear apart or away, tear off, break away - (Qal) to tear away, snatch, rescue - (Piel) to tear off - (Hithpael) to tear off from oneself, be broken off, be broken in pieces

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

5: words
5: distinct lemmas
Wisdom: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ to tear away H6561 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ to tear away H6561 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
3 nouns
1 conjunction

Verb forms

וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 12 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Psalms 136:24 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 15:13 "You, in your loving kindness, have led the people that you have redeemed. You have guided them in your strength to your holy habitation.
Psalms 107:2 Let the redeemed by Yahweh say so, Whom he has redeemed from the hand of the adversary,
Deuteronomy 15:15 You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
Luke 1:68–74 "Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, For he has visited and worked redemption for his people;
Titus 2:14 who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.
Proverbs 23:10–11 Don't move the ancient boundary stone. Don't encroach on the fields of the fatherless:

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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 135 (Hebrew Psalm 136). The Septuagint counts the superscription, so verse numbers can differ from the Hebrew — chapter-level alignment, not verse-by-verse. Numbering follows Rahlfs.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Psalms 136:24 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ מִצָּרֵ֑ינוּ כִּ֖י לְעוֹלָ֣ם חַסְדּֽוֹ

And has delivered us from our adversaries; For his loving kindness endures forever:

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Greek LXX Greek Psalm 135:24 Septuagint · lemma form

καί λυτρόω ἐγώ ἐκ ὁ ἐχθρός ἐγώ ὅτι εἰς ὁ αἰών ὁ ἔλεος αὐτός

and redeemed us from our enemies; for his mercy endures for ever.

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 136:24 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Psa 136:24 And hath redeemed us from our enemies: for his mercy [endureth] for ever.

Ver. 24. And hath redeemed us] Or, broken us off, pulled us away, as by violence; for they would never else have loosed us. This is priori maior misericordia, a greater mercy than the former, saith Kimchi; to redeem is more than to preserve.

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

24. (Psa 136:24) And snatched us from our adversaries—for unto eternity (is) his mercy. The first verb always denotes violent action. See above, on Psa 7:2. It here means to snatch or tear away, as in Lam 5:8, and has reference to the great catastrophe by which the Babylonian power was broken and the Jews set free.

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

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(24) Redeemed.—Better, as in original, snatched us from. (Comp. Psa_7:2, used of a lion suddenly seizing his prey.)

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

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

24. And hath redeemed &c.] R.V. and hath delivered us from our adversaries.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And hath redeemed us from our enemies,.... Temporal enemies, tyrants, and oppressors: and spiritual ones, sin, Satan, the world, the law, death, and hell;

for his mercy endureth for ever; as is clearly seen in redemption by Jesus Christ, where mercy and truth have met together; and which is a distinguishing mercy to the sons of men, not granted to angels.

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

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And hath redeemed us from our enemies - Has rescued or delivered us from all our foes; has given to us freedom and peace.

For his mercy ... - By all that he has done in order to redeem us; and by all the prosperity, happiness, and peace which have followed as the result of that, he has showed his mercy. So it is in the greater work of the redemption of the soul. By all the love manifested in the gift of a Saviour - by all the sufferings and toils of his life - by his “agony and bloody sweat” in the garden of Gethsemane - by his “cross and passion,” by all the blessings of salvation here, all our peace, all our purity, all our consolations, all our hopes, and by all the glories of heaven hereafter - the mercy of God in our redemption is to be estimated and measured. Who can take the full account of it?

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Treasury of David

Charles H. Spurgeon

Ver. 24. And hath redeemed us from our enemies. Israel's enemies brought the people low; but the Lord intervened, and turned the tables by a great redemption. The expression implies that they had become like slaves, and were not set free without price and power; for they needed to be "redeemed." In our case the redemption which is in Christ Jesus is an eminent reason for giving thanks unto the Lord. Sin is our enemy, and we are redeemed from it by the atoning blood; Satan is our enemy, and we are redeemed from him by the Redeemer's power; the world is our enemy, and we are redeemed from it by the Holy Spirit. We are ransomed, let us enjoy our liberty; Christ has wrought our redemption, let us praise his name.

For his mercy endureth for ever. Even to redemption by the death of his Son did divine mercy stretch itself. What more can be desired? What more can be imagined? Many waters could not quench love, neither could the floods drown it.

E'en to death upon the tree

Mercy dureth faithfully.

Ver. 24. And. If the end of one mercy were not the beginning of another, we were undone. Philip Henry, 1631-1696.

Ver. 24. And hath redeemed us. Or, broken us off, pulled us away, as by violence; for they would never else have loosed us. John Trapp.

Ver. 24. Our enemies, our accomplished redemption, the author of it, and his reason for effecting it.

Ver. 24. The multiplied redemptions of the Christian life, and their inexhaustible spring. W.B.H.

Psalms 136:25*

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

The Pulpit Commentary

And hath redeemed us from our enemies; rather, and redeemed us or, "snatched us from our enemies. For his mercy, etc.

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

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

redeemed

(See Scofield "Isa 59:20"). See Scofield "Exo 14:30".

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

has given us victory over our enemies

Causing people to be victorious and defeat their enemies is spoken of as giving them victory, as if victory were an object that can be given. AT: "has made us victorious over our enemies" or "has made us able to defeat our enemies" (See: Metaphor)

for his covenant faithfulness endures forever

The abstract noun "faithfulness" can be translated with an adjective. See how you translated this in Psalms 136:1. AT: "because he remains faithful to his covenant forever" (See: Abstract Nouns)

the God of heaven

"the God who lives in heaven" or "the God whom the heavenly beings worship"

translationWords

adversary

life

heaven

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

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

And He rescued us from their midst and performed all these wonders for us.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Psalms, in the Wisdom, opens this verse with 5 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is pâraq (“to tear away”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to tear away” (pâraq) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Genesis 27:40 shares the word «to tear away» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «וַיִּפְרְקֵ֥נוּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and J. A. Alexander on Psalms read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 5 words in this verse.