Psalm 87:2
Strong's Lexicon
The LORD
יְ֭הוָה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: Jehovah = 'the existing One' 1) the proper name of the one true God 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of H0136

loves
אֹהֵ֣ב (’ō·hêḇ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: 1) to love 1a) (Qal) 1a1) human love for another, includes family, and sexual 1a2) human appetite for objects such as food, drink, sleep, wisdom 1a3) human love for or to God 1a4) act of being a friend 1a4a) lover (participle) 1a4b) friend (participle) 1a5) God's love toward man 1a5a) to individual men 1a5b) to people Israel 1a5c) to righteousness 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) lovely (participle) 1b2) loveable (participle) 1c) (Piel) 1c1) friends 1c2) lovers (fig. of adulterers) 2) to like

the gates
שַׁעֲרֵ֣י (ša·‘ă·rê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 8179: 1) gate 1a) gate (of entrance) 1b) gate (of space inside gate, i.e. marketplace, public meeting place) 1b1) city, town 1c) gate (of palace, royal castle, temple, court of tabernacle) 1d) heaven

of Zion
צִיּ֑וֹן (ṣî·yō·wn)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6726: Zion = 'parched place' 1) another name for Jerusalem especially in the prophetic books

more than all
מִ֝כֹּ֗ל (mik·kōl)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: 1) all, the whole 1a) all, the whole of 1b) any, each, every, anything 1c) totality, everything

the dwellings
מִשְׁכְּנ֥וֹת (miš·kə·nō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 4908: 1) dwelling place, tabernacle 1a) dwelling-place 1b) dwellings

of Jacob.
יַעֲקֹֽב׃ (ya·‘ă·qōḇ)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3290: Jacob = 'heel holder' or 'supplanter' 1) son of Isaac, grandson of Abraham, and father of the 12 patriarchs of the tribes of Israel

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah is loving the gates of Zion Above all the tabernacles of Jacob.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the [other] dwelling places of Jacob.

King James Bible
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the other dwellings of Jacob.

New Living Translation
He loves the city of Jerusalem more than any other city in Israel.

English Standard Version
the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

New American Standard Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion More than all the other dwelling places of Jacob.

King James Bible
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

International Standard Version
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than the dwellings of Jacob.

NET Bible
The LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.

American Standard Version
Jehovah loveth the gates of Zion More than all the dwellings of Jacob.

English Revised Version
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Young's Literal Translation
Jehovah is loving the gates of Zion Above all the tabernacles of Jacob.
















Cross References
Revelation 20:9
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Psalm 68:16
Why leap ye, ye high hills? this is the hill which God desireth to dwell in; yea, the LORD will dwell in it for ever.

Psalm 78:67
Moreover he refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim:

Psalm 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Psalm 122:2
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 87:1
His foundation is in the holy mountains.

Psalm 86:17
Shew me a token for good; that they which hate me may see it, and be ashamed: because thou, LORD, hast holpen me, and comforted me.

Psalm 86:16
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Psalm 87:3
Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

Psalm 87:4
I will make mention of Rahab and Babylon to them that know me: behold Philistia, and Tyre, with Ethiopia; this man was born there.
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