מִֽמְּכוֹן שִׁבְתּ֥וֹ הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ אֶ֖ל כָּל יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָֽרֶץ
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
World English Bible · Public Domain
Psalms 33:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Psalms 33:14 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.
English Translation
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
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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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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
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King James Version Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the place of his dwelling he gazes at all of the dwellers of the earth,
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
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King James Version Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
From the habitation of his dwelling he beholdeth all them that dwell in the earth.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
From his habitation which he hath prepared, he hath looked upon all that dwell on the earth.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
From the fixed place of His dwelling, || He looked to all inhabitants of the earth;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
From the place where he lives, he looks down on all who live on the earth.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
From the place of his dwelling he gazes at all of the dwellers of the earth,
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Darby Bible Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
from his throne he watches all those who live on earth.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
From his house he keeps watch on all who are living on the earth;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
From the place of His habitation He looketh intently upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
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הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ
shâgach
H7688
“to gaze”
Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 3× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Verb
- Stem
- Hiphil
- Form
- Perfect
- Person
- 3rd Person
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
Full BDB Definition
(Hiphil) to gaze, stare
- מִֽמְּכוֹן mâkôwn H4349 “from · foundation of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שִׁבְתּ֥וֹ yâshab H3427 “to dwell · him” Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ shâgach H7688 “to gaze” Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶ֖ל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- כָּל kôl H3605 “all of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- יֹשְׁבֵ֣י yâshab H3427 “dwelling” Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- הָאָֽרֶץ ʼerets H776 “the · land” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 7
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Wisdom
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ to gaze H7688 — appearing just 3 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
- הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ to gaze H7688
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ to gaze H7688 occurs in 3 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- שִׁבְתּ֥וֹ Qal · Infinitive Construct
- הִשְׁגִּ֑יחַ Hiphil · Perfect
- יֹשְׁבֵ֣י Qal · Participle Active
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- שִׁבְתּ֥וֹ to dwell H3427 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 13 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.
In the original languages it is 7 Hebrew tokens and 11 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.
Cross-references
9Topical passages linked to Psalms 33:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- 1 Kings 8:39 then hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and forgive, and do, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you, even you only, know the hearts of all the children of men;)
- 1 Kings 8:27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can't contain you; how much less this house that I have built!
- 1 Kings 8:30 Listen you to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling-place; and when you hear, forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:43 hear in heaven, your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by my name.
- Psalms 123:1 To you I do lift up my eyes, You who sit in the heavens.
- Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
- Isaiah 66:1 Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what place shall be my rest?
- Luke 11:2 He said to them, "When you pray, say, 'Our Father in heaven, May your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on Earth, as it is in heaven.
- 1 Timothy 6:16 who alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light; whom no man has seen, nor can see: to whom be honor and eternal power. Amen.
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 32 (Hebrew Psalm 33). 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.
ἐκ ἕτοιμος κατοικητήριον αὐτός ἐπιβλέπω ἐπί πᾶς ὁ καταοἰκέω ὁ γῆ
He looks from his prepared habitation on all the dwellers on the earth;
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 →
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 (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shâgach (“to gaze”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “to gaze” (shâgach) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- This is the first place “to gaze” appears in Scripture (first appears here). What does its debut here establish?
- How does Song of Solomon 2:9, which shares the word «to gaze», read alongside this verse?
- What does the repetition of “to dwell” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- «שִׁבְתּ֥וֹ» is a Qal Infinitive Construct verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and J. A. Alexander on Psalms read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 1 word makes its first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 11 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- “to dwell” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Psalms 33:14 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
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
Joseph Addison Alexander, The Psalms Translated and Explained (1850) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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
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
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Treasury of David
Charles H. Spurgeon
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
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
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.