Psalms 1:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־כֵ֥ן הָרְשָׁעִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם־כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץ אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ רֽוּחַ׃

Transliteration

Not-so the-rəšāʿîm but if-like-mōṣ which-tiddefennû rûaḥ

Grammar Details

*lōʾ-kēn*: negative + adverb - not so
*hā-rəšāʿîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the wicked ones
*kî ʾim-*: conjunction phrase - but rather/but instead
*ka-*: preposition - like/as
*mōṣ*: masculine singular - chaff
*ʾăšer-*: relative pronoun - which/that
*tiddefennû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - it drives it away
*rûaḥ*: feminine singular - wind/spirit/breath

Word Meanings

*lōʾ-kēn*: not so/not thus
*rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil-doers/ungodly
*kî ʾim*: but rather/but instead/except
*mōṣ*: chaff/husks/straw
*tiddefennû*: drives away/scatters/blows away
*rûaḥ*: wind/spirit/breath

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 21:18 : 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Matt 3:12 : 12 whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.
Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind, And the angel of Jehovah driving [them] on.
Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
Isa 29:5 : 5 But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the dew that passeth early away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

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