King James Version
Psalms 126:1 in the King James Version says “A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. turned: Heb. returned...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 126 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. turned: Heb. returned the returning”
Psalms 126:1 · KJV
A Song of degrees. When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. turned: Heb. returned the returning
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them. hath: Heb. hath magnified to do with them
The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“turned again”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“When the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“we were like them that dream”
H2492properly, to bind firmly, i.e., (through the figurative sense of dumbness) to dream
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