28 For you will light my lamp, Yahweh. My God will light up my darkness.
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Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Psalms 18:28. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: Old Testament / Hebrew Bible
Primary Hebrew source-text witness for the Hebrew Bible.
כִּֽי־אַ֭תָּה עַם־עָנִ֣י תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ וְעֵינַ֖יִם רָמ֣וֹת תַּשְׁפִּֽיל׃
כִּֽי
עַם
תוֹשִׁ֑יעַ
וְעֵינַ֖יִם
רָמ֣וֹת
Coverage: Old Testament and Apocrypha where imported
Ancient Greek translation tradition. Every imported LXX token is classified with confidence labels; rare/generated forms remain needs-review rather than hand-verified scholarship.
Shown from source reference 17:28 because this tradition numbers the passage differently.
Ὅτι σὺ λαὸν ταπεινὸν σώσεις, καὶ ὀφθαλμοὺς ὑπερηφάνων ταπεινώσεις.
Ὅτι
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὅτι
- Transliteration
- hoti
- Morphology
- subordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- that, because, for
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Conjunction introducing cause, content, or explanation.
- Occurrences
- 3703
σὺ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- σύ
- Transliteration
- sy
- Morphology
- pronoun, nominative second-person singular
- Gloss
- you
- Part of Speech
- pronoun
- Definition
- Second-person personal pronoun.
- Occurrences
- 12950
λαὸν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- λαός
- Transliteration
- laos
- Morphology
- noun, masculine nominative singular
- Gloss
- people
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- People, nation, or community.
- Occurrences
- 1841
ταπεινὸν
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ταπεινὸν
- Transliteration
- tapeinon
- Morphology
- accusative masculine or nominative/accusative neuter singular pattern
- Gloss
- ...
- Part of Speech
- noun/adjective form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 8
σώσεις
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- σώσεις
- Transliteration
- soseis
- Morphology
- Greek -εις form; likely verb 2nd singular or plural noun/adjective depending on context
- Gloss
- form requires context
- Part of Speech
- verb/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 13
καὶ
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- καί
- Transliteration
- kai
- Morphology
- coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and, also, even
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- Coordinating conjunction.
- Strong's
- G2532
- Occurrences
- 56730
ὀφθαλμοὺς
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium high
- Confidence note
- Rule-aligned high-frequency LXX form. Stronger than generic preliminary enrichment, but not manually reviewed verse-by-verse.
- Lemma
- ὀφθαλμός
- Transliteration
- ophthalmous
- Morphology
- noun, masculine accusative plural
- Gloss
- eyes
- Part of Speech
- noun
- Definition
- Eye; by extension sight or perception.
- Occurrences
- 553
ὑπερηφάνων
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ὑπερηφάνων
- Transliteration
- yperephanon
- Morphology
- Greek -ων form; often genitive plural noun/adjective or nominative masculine participle
- Gloss
- of ... / being ...
- Part of Speech
- participle/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 10
ταπεινώσεις
- Status
- Rule-aligned morphology
- Confidence
- medium
- Confidence note
- Broad rule-aligned LXX morphology pattern. This is a generated morphology/part-of-speech layer intended for progress and searchability, not a hand-reviewed scholarly parse.
- Lemma
- ταπεινώσεις
- Transliteration
- tapeinoseis
- Morphology
- Greek -εις form; likely verb 2nd singular or plural noun/adjective depending on context
- Gloss
- form requires context
- Part of Speech
- verb/noun form
- Definition
- Generated LXX morphology pattern. Lexical meaning and exact parsing should be reviewed against the verse context.
- Occurrences
- 4
Coverage: Old Testament and selected Apocrypha
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܡܛܠ ܕܐܢܬ ܥܡܐ ܡܣܟܢܐ ܬܦܪܘܩ ܘܥܝ̈ܢܐ ܪ̈ܡܬܐ ܬܡܟܟ
ܡܛܠ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- MVL
- Morphology
- MVL
- Occurrences
- 0
ܕܐܢܬ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- D>NT
- Morphology
- D->NT
- Occurrences
- 0
ܥܡܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- <M>
- Morphology
- <M=/~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܡܣܟܢܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- MSKN>
- Morphology
- MSKN/~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܬܦܪܘܩ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- TPRWQ
- Morphology
- !T!PR&WQ[
- Occurrences
- 0
ܘܥܝ̈ܢܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- W<J"N>
- Morphology
- W-<JN/(J~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܪ̈ܡܬܐ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- R"MT>
- Morphology
- RM/T=~>
- Occurrences
- 0
ܬܡܟܟ
- Confidence
- medium Apache-2.0 OpenSSI Syriac parser output
- Note
- OpenSSI morphology candidate mapped by book/chapter/verse and token position. Review before labeling as hand-verified scholarship.
- Transliteration
- TMKK
- Morphology
- !T!MKK[:d
- Occurrences
- 0
Coverage: Prophets, Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Megillot, and Chronicles. Torah Onkelos excluded pending commercial-safe licensing.
Jewish Aramaic interpretive translation tradition. Use as a Targum witness, not as a one-for-one original-language replacement.
מְטוּל דְאַנְתְּ יַת עַמָא בֵּית יִשְׂרָאֵל דַחֲשִׁיכִין בֵּינֵי עַמְמַיָא בְּגָלוּתָא אַנְתְּ עֲתִיד לְמִפְרַק וּבְמֵימְרָךְ אוּמַיָא תַקִיפַיָא דְמִתְגַבְּרִין עֲלֵיהוֹן תַּמְאִיךְ׃
מְטוּל
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- טול
- Transliteration
- mtwl
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 322
דְאַנְתְּ
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- אנת
- Transliteration
- d'nt
- Morphology
- prefixed relative/genitive ד + personal pronoun
- Gloss
- of/that you
- Occurrences
- 120
יַת
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ית
- Transliteration
- yt
- Morphology
- accusative/direct object marker
- Gloss
- direct object marker
- Occurrences
- 4303
עַמָא
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- עם
- Transliteration
- 'm'
- Morphology
- noun masculine singular emphatic
- Gloss
- people
- Occurrences
- 1754
בֵּית
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- בית
- Transliteration
- byt
- Morphology
- noun construct/absolute
- Gloss
- house, household
- Occurrences
- 2611
יִשְׂרָאֵל
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- ישראל
- Transliteration
- yshr'l
- Morphology
- proper noun
- Gloss
- Israel
- Occurrences
- 2312
דַחֲשִׁיכִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- חשיכין
- Transliteration
- dchshykyn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 6
בֵּינֵי
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- יני
- Transliteration
- byny
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 148
עַמְמַיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עממיא
- Transliteration
- 'mmy'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 635
בְּגָלוּתָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- גלותא
- Transliteration
- bglwt'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 71
אַנְתְּ
- Confidence
- medium aramaic rule-aligned
- Note
- Matched Spirit Nation Aramaic rule lexicon. Verify before labeling as hand-reviewed scholarship.
- Lemma
- אנת
- Transliteration
- 'nt
- Morphology
- personal pronoun
- Gloss
- you
- Occurrences
- 120
עֲתִיד
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עתיד
- Transliteration
- 'tyd
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 130
לְמִפְרַק
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מפרק
- Transliteration
- lmprq
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 33
וּבְמֵימְרָךְ
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- במימרך
- Transliteration
- wbmymrk
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 6
אוּמַיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- אומיא
- Transliteration
- 'wmy'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 38
תַקִיפַיָא
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תקיפיא
- Transliteration
- tqypy'
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic emphatic noun/adjective candidate
- Occurrences
- 11
דְמִתְגַבְּרִין
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- מתגברין
- Transliteration
- dmtgbryn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic token with stripped prefix/suffix
- Occurrences
- 8
עֲלֵיהוֹן
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- עליהון
- Transliteration
- 'lyhwn
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 342
תַּמְאִיךְ׃
- Status
- Preliminary machine alignment
- Confidence
- low aramaic preliminary
- Note
- Preliminary Aramaic token normalization. Lemma/gloss/morphology require later review.
- Lemma
- תמאיך
- Transliteration
- tm'yk
- Morphology
- preliminary Aramaic source token
- Occurrences
- 3
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Shown from source reference 17:28 because this tradition numbers the passage differently.
Quoniam tu populum humilem salvum facies, et oculos superborum humiliabis.
quoniam
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quoniam
- Transliteration
- quoniam
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 1134
tu
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tu
- Transliteration
- tu
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 4602
populum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- populus
- Transliteration
- populum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2030
humilem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- humilis
- Transliteration
- humilem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 66
salvum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- saluus
- Transliteration
- salvum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 169
facies
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- facio
- Transliteration
- facies
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 4719
et
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- et
- Transliteration
- et
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Gloss
- and
- Part of Speech
- conjunction
- Definition
- and, also, even
- Etymology
- Basic Latin coordinating conjunction.
- Occurrences
- 50526
oculos
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- oculus
- Transliteration
- oculos
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 682
superborum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- superbus
- Transliteration
- superborum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 63
humiliabis
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- humilio
- Transliteration
- humiliabis
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 132
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Greek Septuagint tradition often follows different ordering, grouping, or book structure here. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
Coverage: Source-structure exceptions
Explains reader references where the imported tradition does not align one-to-one.
Editorial alignment note: The Clementine Vulgate source does not expose this exact reader reference as a one-to-one source row. Reader-side public-domain text for this reference: "For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness." This panel is a study bridge only, not a replacement for an ancient source witness.
Source verse imported. Word-by-word lemma, morphology, gloss, and lexicon entries have not been attached for this language/source yet.
Ranked cross references
Connections are ranked by community votes in the OpenBible.info cross-reference dataset (CC BY 4.0). They suggest related themes, words, events, or people; they are not automatic interpretations.
2 Samuel 22:29
For you are my lamp, Yahweh. Yahweh will light up my darkness.
20 relevance votesJob 29:3
when his lamp shone on my head, and by his light I walked through darkness,
18 relevance votesIsaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
17 relevance votesMatthew 4:16
the people who sat in darkness saw a great light; to those who sat in the region and shadow of death, to them light has dawned.”
14 relevance votes1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
12 relevance votesLuke 1:79
to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
12 relevance votesPsalms 112:4
Light dawns in the darkness for the upright, gracious, merciful, and righteous.
10 relevance votesProverbs 20:27
The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
10 relevance votesIsaiah 62:1
For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.
8 relevance votesPsalms 132:17
I will make the horn of David to bud there. I have ordained a lamp for my anointed.
7 relevance votes1 Kings 15:4
Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him and to establish Jerusalem;
3 relevance votesJob 18:6
The light will be dark in his tent. His lamp above him will be put out.
3 relevance votes