King James Version
Psalms 8:6 in the King James Version says “Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 8 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:”
Psalms 8:6 · KJV
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; All: Heb. Flocks and oxen all of them
The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“over the works”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“of thy hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“all things under his feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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