יַגִּ֥יד (yag·gîḏ) in Psalms 51:15: Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
יַגִּ֥יד (yag·gîḏ) in Psalms 51:15
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:15 links the English rendering "will declare" with יַגִּ֥יד, Strong's H5046, and the morphology tag V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form identifies declared praise as the mouth's expected response after the Lord opens the speaker's lips.
How To Communicate It
Use the form to ask what restored speech does in the verse: it declares the Lord's praise. Keep the point clause-level and do not turn the morphology tag into an independent theology of worship.
What Not To Say
- Grammar should serve context, not override it.
- Do not make the imperfect label prove more than the sentence supports.
- Do not use the stem label by itself to settle a theological claim.
- Do not treat this occurrence as a complete word study for the whole Hebrew lemma.
- Do not use the grammar profile as a shortcut around the wording and logic of the verse.
What Does The Label Mean?
Hebrew-verb
Verb
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Hifil
Imperfect
Third person
Masculine
Singular
The imperfect form presents the action as unfolding, expected, or desired in context; Psalms 51:15 determines how that force is heard.
This form carries the BSB rendering "will declare" within Psalms 51:15. Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
What The Form Does In This Verse
The action rendered "will declare" in Psalms 51:15
The clause follows the prayer, "O Lord, open my lips," and names the response of the speaker's mouth.
It identifies the verbal action that the speaker's mouth will carry out: declaring the Lord's praise after God opens his lips.
The form does not by itself prove a full doctrine of praise, a guaranteed future result apart from the prayer context, or every use of H5046.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form carries the expected praise response after the prayer for opened lips.
Hifil imperfect with the mouth as subject. states what restored speech will do. Attached to the clause rendered "will declare". Governed by the prayer that the Lord open the speaker's lips. The imperfect fits the prayed-for result and should not be detached from the petition.
What will restored speech do? It will declare the Lord's praise.
Direct: The form directly supports the rendering "will declare" in the restored-speech clause.
The imperfect expresses the expected response in the prayer context. Hifil supports the declaration action but does not create a full theology of praise by itself. The subject is the speaker's mouth in the clause.
Imperfect always proves a timeless promise: Here the imperfect belongs to the prayed-for movement from opened lips to praise. Hifil always means causative: The Hifil form must be read with the lexeme and clause; it does not mechanically settle the theology of praise.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:15 links the English rendering "will declare" with יַגִּ֥יד, Strong's H5046, and the morphology tag V-Hifil-Imperf-3ms.
H5046 is represented here by the lemma נָגַד. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "will declare" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular functions as the verbal action tied to the speaker's mouth in Psalms 51:15. The imperfect fits the expected or desired result after the request that the Lord open his lips.
Psalm 51 gives language for confession, cleansing, restoration, renewed joy, and renewed praise before God.
The form fits Scripture's pattern of repentance, mercy, cleansing, and restored worship before the Lord.
When teaching Psalms 51:15, use this form to show how restored speech turns toward declared praise, while keeping the force tied to the prayer and its immediate clause.
Do not make the imperfect form prove a timeless promise, and do not make the Hifil stem carry more than the verse supplies. Psalm 51:15 moves from opened lips to declared praise.