1 Samuel 2:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

רַגְלֵ֤י חֲסִידָיו֙ יִשְׁמֹ֔ר וּרְשָׁעִ֖ים בַּחֹ֣שֶׁךְ יִדָּ֑מּוּ כִּֽי־לֹ֥א בְכֹ֖חַ יִגְבַּר־אִֽישׁ׃

Transliteration

raglê ḥăsîdāyw yišmōr, and rəšāʿîm in ḥōšek yiddāmmû; because-not in kōaḥ yigbar-ʾîš.

Grammar Details

• *raglê*: noun feminine dual construct - feet of
• *ḥăsîdāyw*: adjective masculine plural construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his faithful ones/godly ones
• *yišmōr*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - he guards/keeps
• *rəšāʿîm*: adjective masculine plural - wicked ones
• *ḥōšek*: noun masculine singular - darkness
• *yiddāmmû*: Niphal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they are silenced/they perish
• *kōaḥ*: noun masculine singular - strength/power
• *yigbar*: Qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - prevails/is strong
• *ʾîš*: noun masculine singular - man

Word Meanings

• *ḥăsîdāyw*: his faithful ones/his godly ones/his loyal ones
• *yišmōr*: he guards/keeps/preserves
• *rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil ones/ungodly
• *yiddāmmû*: they are silenced/they perish/they are cut off
• *yigbar*: prevails/is strong/is mighty

Referenced Verses

• Ps 33:16-17 : 16 There is no king saved by the multitude of a host: A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain thing for safety; Neither doth he deliver any by his great power.
• Ps 91:11-12 : 11 For he will give his angels charge over thee, To keep thee in all thy ways. 12 They shall bear thee up in their hands, Lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
• Ps 121:3 : 3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
• Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• 1 Pet 1:5 : 5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
• Ps 37:23-24 : 23 A man's goings are established of Jehovah; And he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
• Ps 37:28 : 28 For Jehovah loveth justice, And forsaketh not his saints; They are preserved for ever: But the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.
• Deut 33:3 : 3 Yea, he loveth the people; All his saints are in thy hand: And they sat down at thy feet; [Every one] shall receive of thy words.
• 1 Sam 17:49-50 : 49 And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead; and the stone sank into his forehead, and he fell upon his face to the earth. 50 So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and slew him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.
• Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
• Ps 97:10 : 10 O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil: He preserveth the souls of his saints; He delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.
• Job 5:24 : 24 And thou shalt know that thy tent is in peace; And thou shalt visit thy fold, and shalt miss nothing.
• Eccl 5:17 : 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he is sore vexed, and hath sickness and wrath.
• Eccl 9:11 : 11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
• Jer 8:14 : 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fortified cities, and let us be silent there; for Jehovah our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against Jehovah.
• Jer 9:23 : 23 Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in his riches;
• Zeph 1:15 : 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
• Zech 4:6 : 6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of Jehovah unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith Jehovah of hosts.
• Prov 16:9 : 9 A man's heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.
• Job 5:16 : 16 So the poor hath hope, And iniquity stoppeth her mouth.
• Ps 121:5 : 5 Jehovah is thy keeper: Jehovah is thy shade upon thy right hand.
• Ps 121:8 : 8 Jehovah will keep thy going out and thy coming in From this time forth and for evermore.
• Prov 2:8 : 8 That he may guard the paths of justice, And preserve the way of his saints.
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
• Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are called, beloved in God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was giving all diligence to write unto you of our common salvation, I was constrained to write unto you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered unto the saints.
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
• Matt 22:12-13 : 12 and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding- garment? And he was speechless. 13 Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Rom 3:19 : 19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:
• Prov 3:26 : 26 For Jehovah will be thy confidence, And will keep thy foot from being taken.