יַעֲל֖וּ (ya·‘ă·lū) in Psalms 51:19: Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
יַעֲל֖וּ (ya·‘ă·lū) in Psalms 51:19
Source Word
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:19 links the English rendering "will be offered" with יַעֲל֖וּ, Strong's H5927, and the morphology tag V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form clarifies the sacrificial action at the close of the psalm. It supports the restored-worship picture while keeping the altar language connected to the whole psalm, not isolated from repentance.
How To Communicate It
Use the form to locate the action in the altar clause and then keep readers inside the psalm's order: mercy, cleansing, restored joy, renewed praise, and accepted 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 plural
Hifil
Imperfect
Third person
Masculine
Plural
The imperfect form presents the action as unfolding, expected, or desired in context; Psalms 51:19 determines how that force is heard.
This form carries the BSB rendering "will be offered" within Psalms 51:19. 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 be offered" in Psalms 51:19
The clause follows the psalm's movement toward restored Zion and accepted worship on the altar.
It identifies the sacrificial action associated with bulls on the altar after the psalm has already emphasized brokenness, cleansing, and restored worship.
The form does not reverse Psalm 51's earlier guardrail about sacrifice, settle sacrificial theology by itself, or make the Hifil label carry a passive claim alone.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The form carries the altar action at the close of Psalm 51 after the psalm has emphasized mercy, cleansing, and restored worship.
Hifil imperfect third masculine plural. states the action associated with offerings on the altar. Attached to the sacrificial action in the altar clause. Governed by the restored-worship close of Psalm 51. The form should be read with the psalm's order from repentance to restored worship.
What action is named at the altar? Bulls are described as being offered on the altar in the restored-worship conclusion.
Direct: The form directly supports the sacrificial action rendered "will be offered."
The imperfect should be read in the restored-worship context rather than as a detached future rule. Hifil should not be made to carry sacrificial theology by itself.
Imperfect always means future: The imperfect contributes to the closing worship picture, but the psalm supplies the theological order. grammar reverses Psalm 51 on sacrifice: The form names altar action; it does not cancel the psalm's earlier emphasis on a broken and contrite heart.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The BSB+ row for Psalms 51:19 links the English rendering "will be offered" with יַעֲל֖וּ, Strong's H5927, and the morphology tag V-Hifil-Imperf-3mp.
H5927 is represented here by the lemma עָלָה. In this occurrence, the public guide is limited to the BSB rendering "will be offered" rather than every possible gloss of the entry.
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural functions in the restored-worship clause of Psalms 51:19. The altar context and sacrificial objects guide the English rendering "will be offered."
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 51:19, use this form to show how restored worship is pictured at the altar without letting the grammar erase the psalm's earlier emphasis on a broken and contrite heart.
Do not make the Hifil imperfect alone prove sacrificial theology or passive voice. The form serves this altar clause inside Psalm 51's larger repentance and restoration movement.