מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ (miz·ba·ḥă·ḵā) in Psalms 51:19: Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ (miz·ba·ḥă·ḵā) in Psalms 51:19
Source Word
At Psalms 51:19, the source token מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ is H4196, N-msc | 2ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
Your altar directly represents the noun and its second-person masculine singular suffix. When God restores, sacrificial worship can again be righteous, consistent with rather than opposed to true contrition.
How To Communicate It
Keep Your in the prayer's direct address and read altar worship in continuity with the preceding call for inward brokenness.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not pit sacrifice against repentance or claim that altar ritual purchases forgiveness apart from God's mercy.
- The verse looks toward restored sacrificial practice, while its place in the psalm's textual history lies beyond this morphology.
- Read Your altar within Psalms 51:19 as this H4196 occurrence; broader theology requires the passage.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-nominal
Noun
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
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Masculine
Singular
Construct
2Ms
This possessed noun identifies the worship site; the future verbs describe delight and offering.
The second masculine singular suffix points to God and makes the altar the endpoint of the passive offering clause.
What The Form Does In This Verse
God as the possessor of the altar where restored sacrifices are offered
The closing expectation of renewed righteous worship after Zion's good restoration
The masculine singular noun with second-person suffix identifies the altar as Your altar in direct address to God.
The suffix does not make ritual offerings a substitute for the broken spirit and contrite heart named earlier.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: When God restores, sacrificial worship can again be righteous, consistent with rather than opposed to true contrition.
The second masculine singular suffix points to God and makes the altar the endpoint of the passive offering clause.. The masculine singular noun with second-person suffix identifies the altar as Your altar in direct address to God.. Attached to God as the possessor of the altar where restored sacrifices are offered. Governed by the closing expectation of renewed righteous worship after Zion's good restoration. The suffix does not make ritual offerings a substitute for the broken spirit and contrite heart named earlier.
Why does the psalm call it Your altar? The suffix places the altar and restored worship under God's ownership and acceptance, not human control.
Direct: Your altar directly represents the noun and its second-person masculine singular suffix.
The verse looks toward restored sacrificial practice, while its place in the psalm's textual history lies beyond this morphology. Possession establishes divine relation but does not specify the altar's construction or location.
Altar sacrifice replaces contrition: The psalm first declares the broken and contrite heart acceptable and then anticipates righteous offerings. possessive suffix makes ritual automatic: God's ownership subjects worship to his terms rather than guaranteeing acceptance of any offering.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
At Psalms 51:19, the source token מִזְבַּחֲךָ֣ is H4196, N-msc | 2ms. The BSB+ word table row therefore anchors this guide.
מִזְבֵּחַ is the lemma behind Your altar here. Within Psalms 51:19, H4196 retains this exact lexical identity.
The second masculine singular suffix points to God and makes the altar the endpoint of the passive offering clause.
When God restores, sacrificial worship can again be righteous, consistent with rather than opposed to true contrition.
God owns and regulates worship, and outward sacrifice is acceptable when joined to the heart response he desires.
Keep Your in the prayer's direct address and read altar worship in continuity with the preceding call for inward brokenness.
Do not pit sacrifice against repentance or claim that altar ritual purchases forgiveness apart from God's mercy.