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Brenton's Septuagint

Psalms 8:6

and thou hast set him over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Birds;   Condescension of God;   God;   Man;   Prophecy;   Quotations and Allusions;   Religion;   Thompson Chain Reference - All Things;   Animals;   Beasts;   Dominion;   Exaltation;   Man;   Man's;   Preeminence;   Things, All;   The Topic Concordance - Earth;   Man;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Foot;   Gittith;   Psalms, the Book of;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Humanity, humankind;   Image;   Justice;   Nature;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abortion;   Adam;   Animals;   Hebrews, Theology of;   Honor;   Image of God;   Old Testament in the New Testament, the;   Religion;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Universalists;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Nebuchadnezzar;   Pentateuch;   Son of Man;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Anthropology;   Creation;   Dominion;   Hand;   Likeness;   Works;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Beatitudes;   English Versions;   Foot;   Image;   Man;   Music and Musical Instruments;   Person of Christ;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Psalms;   Servant of the Lord;   Sin;   World;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Alpha and Omega (2);   Heir;   Psalms (2);   Quotations;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Adam, the Last;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Gittith;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Feet (under);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Adoration;   Astronomy;   Foot;   God, Image of;   Image;   Music;   Person of Christ;   Philosophy;   Psalms, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Cruelty to Animals;   Honor;   Judaism;   Meá¹­aá¹­ron;   Saul of Tarsus;   Son of Man;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority—
English Revised Version
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Update Bible Version
You make him to have dominion over the works of your hands; You have put all things under his feet:
New Century Version
You put them in charge of everything you made. You put all things under their control:
New English Translation
you appoint them to rule over your creation; you have placed everything under their authority,
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou hast made him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all [things] under his feet:
World English Bible
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
Amplified Bible
You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
English Standard Version
You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and hast ordeyned hym aboue the werkis of thin hondis.
Berean Standard Bible
You made him ruler of the works of Your hands; You have placed everything under his feet:
Contemporary English Version
You let us rule everything your hands have made. And you put all of it under our power—
American Standard Version
Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:
Bible in Basic English
You have made him ruler over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet;
Complete Jewish Bible
You made him but little lower than the angels, you crowned him with glory and honor,
Darby Translation
Thou hast made him to rule over the works of thy hands; thou hast put everything under his feet:
Easy-to-Read Version
You put them in charge of everything you made. You put everything under their control.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yet Thou hast made him but little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.
King James Version (1611)
Thou madest him to haue dominion ouer the workes of thy hands; thou hast put all things vnder his feete.
New Life Bible
You made him to rule over the works of Your hands. You put all things under his feet:
New Revised Standard
You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou hast made him to haue dominion in the workes of thine hands: thou hast put all things vnder his feete:
George Lamsa Translation
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
Good News Translation
You appointed them rulers over everything you made; you placed them over all creation:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shouldst give him dominion over the works of thy hands, - All things, shouldst have put under his feet:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(8-7) And hast set him over the works of thy hands.
Revised Standard Version
Thou hast given him dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou makest hym to haue dominion of the workes of thy handes: and thou hast put all thinges [in subiection] vnder his feete,
Christian Standard Bible®
You made him ruler over the works of your hands;you put everything under his feet:
Hebrew Names Version
You make him ruler over the works of your hands. You have put all things under his feet:
King James Version
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:
Lexham English Bible
You make him over the works of your hands; all things you have placed under his feet:
Literal Translation
You made him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all under his feet:
Young's Literal Translation
Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou hast set him aboue the workes off thy hondes: thou hast put all thinges in subieccion vnder his fete.
New American Standard Bible
You have him rule over the works of Your hands; You have put everything under his feet,
New King James Version
You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet,
Legacy Standard Bible
You make him to rule over the works of Your hands;You have put all things under his feet,

Contextual Overview

3 For I will regard the heavens, the work of thy fingers; the moon and stars, which thou hast established. 4 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him? 5 Thou madest him a little less than angels, thou hast crowned him with glory and honour; 6 and thou hast set him over the works of thy hands: thou hast put all things under his feet: 7 sheep and all oxen, yea and the cattle of the field; 8 the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, the creatures passing through the paths of the sea. 9 O Lord our Lord, how wonderful is thy name in all the earth!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

madest: Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28, Genesis 9:2, Matthew 28:18, Hebrews 1:2

put: Psalms 110:1, 1 Corinthians 15:24-27, Ephesians 1:22, Hebrews 2:8, 1 Peter 3:22

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 5:3 - put Job 41:4 - wilt thou Psalms 50:10 - every Daniel 7:14 - given Luke 5:9 - he Luke 12:7 - ye are 1 Corinthians 11:7 - he is 1 Corinthians 15:27 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 6:16
And thus shalt thou make the ark; three hundred cubits the length of the ark, and fifty cubits the breadth, and thirty cubits the height of it.
Daniel 6:10
And when Daniel knew that the decree was ordered, he went into his house; and his windows were opened in his chambers toward Jerusalem, and three times in the day he knelt upon his knees, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he used to do before.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands,.... All power in heaven and in earth being given to him: when he was raised from the dead, and when he ascended on high, and was set down at the right hand of God, he was made or declared Lord and Christ; Lord of the hosts of heaven, of all the angels there, King of saints, King of kings, and Lord of lords. All things in heaven and earth, which God has made, are put into his hands, to subserve his cause and glory, and for the good of his people; for he is head over all things to the church. The Ethiopic version reads, "all the works of thy hands"; among whom are angels. This is a greater dominion than was given to the first man, Adam, Genesis 1:25;

thou hast put all [things] under his feet; or put them in subjection to him, as the phrase signifies, and as it is interpreted, Hebrews 2:8. Good angels are subject to him, as appears by their ministration to him, their dependence on him, and adoration of him, 1 Peter 3:22; devils are subject to him, whether they will or not; and so are wicked men, whose power and wrath he is able to restrain, and does; and the church is subject to Christ, as her head; and so all good men, willingly and heartily, and from a principle of love, obey his commands: yea, all creatures in the earth, air, and sea, are in subjection to him; an enumeration of which is given in the following verses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou madest him to have dominion - Thou didst cause him to have, or didst give him this dominion. It does not mean that God made or created him for that end, but that he had conceded to him that dominion, thus conferring on him exalted honor. The allusion is to Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:28.

Over the works of thy hands - His works upon the earth, for the dominion extends no further.

Thou hast put all things under his feet - Hast placed all things in subjection to him. Compare Psalms 47:3; Psalms 91:13; Lamentations 3:34; Romans 16:20; 1 Corinthians 15:25. The language is taken from the act of treading down enemies in battle; from putting the feet on the necks of captives, etc. The idea is that of complete and entire subjection. This dominion was originally given to man at his creation, and it still remains (though not so absolute and entire as this), for nothing is in itself more remarkable than the dominion which man, by nature so feeble, exercises over the inferior creation. it is impossible to account for this in any other way than as it is accounted for in the Bible, by the supposition that it was originally conceded to man by his Creator. On the question of the applicability of this to Christ, see the notes at Hebrews 2:6-9.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 8:6. Thou madest him to have dominion — Jesus Christ, who, being in the form of God, and equal with God, for a time emptied himself, and made himself of no reputation; was afterwards highly exalted, and had a name above every name. See the notes referred to above, and those on Philippians 2:6-9.

Thou hast put all things under his feet — Though the whole of the brute creation was made subject to Adam in his state of innocence; yet it could never be literally said of him, that God had put all things under his feet, or that he had dominion over the work of God's hands; but all this is most literally true of our Lord Jesus; and to him the apostle, Hebrews 2:6, &c., applies all these passages.


 
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