Psalms 115:2

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Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, [and] for thy truth's sake.	Wherefore should the heathen say, Where [is] now their God?	But our God [is] in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore should the heathen^H1471 say^H559, Where is now their God^H430?

Original Hebrew

לָמָּה יֹאמְרוּ הַגֹּויִם אַיֵּה־נָא אֱלֹהֵיהֶם׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
לָ֭/מָּה	La./mah	H4100	HR/Ti	(to)/ why?
יֹאמְר֣וּ	yo.me.Ru	H559	HVqi3mp	will they say
הַ/גּוֹיִ֑ם	ha./go.Yim	H1471	HTd/Ncmpa	the/ nations
אַיֵּה	'ai.yeh-	H346	HTi	where?
נָ֝֗א	Na'	H4994	HTe	please
אֱלֹהֵי/הֶֽם	'e.lo.hei./Hem	H430	HNcmpc/Sp3mp	(is) God/ their

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H430 — אֱלֹהִים (ʼĕlôhîym, el-o-heem'): plural of אֱלוֹהַּ; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative; angels, [idiom] exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), [idiom] (very) great, judges, [idiom] mighty.
H559 — אָמַר (ʼâmar, aw-mar'): a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude); answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.
H1471 — גּוֹי (gôwy, go'-ee): rarely (shortened) גֹּי; apparently from the same root as גֵּוָה (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts; Gentile, heathen, nation, people.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H346 — אַיֵּה (ʼayêh, ah-yay'): prolonged from אַי; where?; where.
H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
H4994 — נָא (nâʼ, naw): a primitive particle of incitement and entreaty, which may usually be rendered; 'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction; I beseech (pray) thee (you), go to, now, oh.

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