תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי

   tats-pe-NE-ni

   you will hide me
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 מִ֤י יִתֵּ֨ן בִּשְׁא֬וֹל תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי

   MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni

   who will give or would grant in Sheol you will hide me
3. clause🔊 מִ֤י יִתֵּ֨ן בִּשְׁא֬וֹל תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי עַד־שׁ֣וּב אַפֶּ֑ךָ

   MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni tas-te-RE-ni ad-SHUV A-pe-kha

   who will give or would grant in Sheol you will hide me you will conceal me until returning your anger
4. sentence🔊 מִ֤י יִתֵּ֨ן בִּשְׁא֬וֹל תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי עַד־שׁ֣וּב אַפֶּ֑ךָ תָּ֤שִֽׁ‪ית לִ֖י חֹ֣ק וְתִזְכְּרֵֽנִי׃

   MI yit-TEN bish-e-OL tats-pe-NE-ni tas-te-RE-ni ad-SHUV A-pe-kha ta-SHIT LI KHOK ve-tiz-ke-RE-ni

   who will give or would grant in Sheol you will hide me you will conceal me until returning your anger you will set or appoint for me a statute or fixed limit and you will remember me

Exegesis

A sequence of second-person verbs addressed to God drives the petition forward: first the location is specified (bishol {בִּשְׁא֬וֹל | bišʾôl} ‘in Sheol’), then two near-synonymous Hiphil forms (tatsipneni {תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי | taṣpīnēnî} ‘cause me to be hidden’ and tastireni {תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי | tastîrēnî} ‘cause me to be concealed’) create poetic parallelism and intensification, portraying Sheol as a temporary shelter from divine distress.