Psalm 8:5

New Living Translation

⁵Yet you made them only a little lower than God^[a]
and crowned them^[b] with glory and honor.

8:5a Or Yet you made them only a little lower than the angels; Hebrew reads Yet you made him [i.e., man] a little lower than Elohim.
8:5b Hebrew him [i.e., man]; similarly in 8:6.

Psalm 8:5

Amplified Bible

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Yet You have made him a little lower than ^[a]God,
And You have crowned him with glory and honor.

Psalm 8:5 LXX reads angels; Heb Elohim is usually translated “God” or “god.” But it can also mean “gods” (with a lowercase “g”) when it is used with reference to the pagan gods of other nations. See, for instance, Ex 20:3: “You shall have no other gods (Elohim) before Me.” Since there are no capital letters in Hebrew as there are in English, the meaning of Ps 8:5 is ambiguous. It may be saying that humans were created a little lower than God Himself, or it may say that humans were created a little lower than the heavenly beings.

⁵You have made them^[a] a little lower than the angels^[b]^(A)
and crowned them^[c] with glory and honor.^(B)

⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

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