Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
Enter	בֹּ֤אוּ Bo.'u	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
gates	שְׁעָרָ֨יו she.'a.Rav	H8179	an opening · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
thanksgiving	בְּתוֹדָ֗ה be.to.Dah	H8426	properly · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
courts	חֲצֵרֹתָ֥יו cha.tze.ro.Tav	H2691	a yard (as inclosed by a fence) · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
praise	בִּתְהִלָּ֑ה bit.hi.Lah	H8416	laudation · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
thankful	הֽוֹדוּ ho.du-	H3034	physically · verb, hiphil imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
bless	בָּרֲכ֥וּ ba.ra.Khu	H1288	to kneel · verb, piel imperative, 2nd person masculine plural
name	שְׁמֽוֹ she.Mo	H8034	an appellation · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Colossians 3:16-17 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, sing…
Hebrews 13:15 By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.
1 Chronicles 29:13 Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.
Psalms 103:1-2 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
Psalms 116:17-19 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.
Psalms 66:13 I will go into thy house with burnt offerings: I will pay thee my vows,
Psalms 145:1-2 I will extol thee, my God, O king; and I will bless thy name for ever and ever.
Psalms 96:2 Sing unto the LORD, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

Here, I. The exhortations to praise are very importunate. The psalm does indeed answer to the title, A psalm of praise; it begins with that call which of late we have several times met with (Psa 100:1), Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all you lands, or all the earth, all the inhabitants of the earth. When all nations shall be discipled, and the gospel preached to every creature, then this summons will be fully answered to. But, if we take the foregoing psalm to be (as we have opened it) a call to the Jewish church to rejoice in the administration of God's kingdom, which they were under (as the four psalms before it were calculated for the days of the Messiah), this psalm, perhaps, was int…

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John Gill on Psalms 100:4

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,.... The same with the gates of Zion, loved by the Lord more than all the dwellings of Jacob; the gates of Jerusalem, within which the feet of the saints stand with pleasure; the gates of Wisdom, or Christ, where his followers watch and wait; the gates into his house, the church, and the public ordinances of it, to be entered into with thankfulness for all mercies, temporal and spiritual; for the Gospel, and Gospel opportunities and ordinances: and into his courts with praise; with the sacrifice of praise, as in Psalm 96:8, of these courts, see Psalm 65:4, be thankful unto him; for all blessings of grace in him and by him; for all things, and at all t…

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John Calvin on Psalms 100:4–end

Psalm 100:4-5 4. Enter into his gates with praise, and into his courts with rejoicing: give glory [125] to him, and bless his name. 5. Because Jehovah is good, his mercy endureth for ever, and his truth from generation to generation. 4 Enter his gates The conclusion of the psalm is almost the same as the beginning of it, excepting that he adopts a mode of speech which relates to the worship of God which obtained under the law; [126] in which, however, he merely reminds us that believers, in rendering thanks to God, do not discharge their duty aright, unless they also continue in the practice of a steady profession of piety. Meanwhile, under the name of the temple, he signifies that God can…

The Church Fathers

"For the Lord is pleasant" [Psalm 100:4]. Think not that you faint in praising Him. Your praise of Him is like food: the more ye praise Him, the more ye acquire strength, and He whom you praise becomes the more sweet.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 100

The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary and topics

Church · General references — General references
Gates · Of the temple: The pious Israelites delighted to enter — Of the temple: The pious Israelites delighted to enter
Praise · Is a part of public worship — Is a part of public worship
Thanksgiving · Saints: Should enter God’s gate with — Saints: Should enter God’s gate with

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 100:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 100:4

John Calvin on Psalms 100:4–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 100:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 100:1–end

John Gill on Psalms 100:4

John Calvin on Psalms 100:4–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 100:4–end

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 100:4

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 100:4