Psalms 10:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require [it]?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־מֶ֤ה ׀ נִאֵ֖ץ רָשָׁ֥ע ׀ אֱלֹהִ֑ים אָמַ֥ר בְּ֝לִבּ֗וֹ לֹ֣א תִדְרֹֽשׁ׃

Transliteration

ʿal-meh niʾēṣ rāšāʿ ʾĕlōhîm ʾāmar bĕlibbô lōʾ tidrōš

Grammar Details

*ʿal-meh*: preposition + interrogative pronoun - on what/why
*niʾēṣ*: piel perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he spurns/despises
*rāšāʿ*: noun masculine singular - wicked person
*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun masculine plural - God
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect 3rd person masculine singular - he says/said
*bĕlibbô*: preposition + noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - in his heart
*lōʾ*: negative particle - not
*tidrōš*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - you will inquire/require

Word Meanings

*ʿal-meh*: why/on account of what
*niʾēṣ*: spurn/despise/scorn
*rāšāʿ*: wicked person/evildoer
*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine being
*ʾāmar*: say/speak/think
*lēb*: heart/mind/inner self
*tidrōš*: inquire/seek/require

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Gen 9:5 : 5 And surely your blood, [the blood] of your lives, will I require; at the hand of every beast will I require it: and at the hand of man, even at the hand of every man's brother, will I require the life of man.
Gen 42:22 : 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore also, behold, his blood is required.
Num 11:20 : 20 but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?
2 Sam 12:9-9 : 9 Wherefore hast thou despised the word of Jehovah, to do that which is evil in his sight? thou hast smitten Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon. 10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
2 Chr 24:22 : 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah look upon it, and require it.
Ps 74:10 : 10 How long, O God, shall the adversary reproach? Shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever?
Ps 74:18 : 18 Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Jehovah, And that a foolish people hath blasphemed thy name.
Luke 10:16 : 16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.
Luke 11:50-51 : 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary: yea, I say unto you, it shall be required of this generation.
1 Thess 4:8 : 8 Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

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