Psalms 109:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּצֵל־כִּנְטוֹת֥וֹ נֶהֱלָ֑כְתִּי נִ֝נְעַ֗רְתִּי כָּֽאַרְבֶּֽה׃

Transliteration

Like-ṣēl-when-niṭôtô neĕlākətî ninʿartî like-the-ʾarbeh.

Grammar Details

*ṣēl*: noun, masculine singular - shadow
*niṭôtô*: verb, qal infinitive construct with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - its stretching out/declining
*neĕlākətî*: verb, niphal perfect 1st person singular - I am gone/have disappeared
*ninʿartî*: verb, niphal perfect 1st person singular - I am shaken off
*ʾarbeh*: noun, masculine singular - locust

Word Meanings

*ṣēl*-when-*niṭôtô*: like a shadow when it lengthens/stretches/declines
*neĕlākətî*: I am gone/I vanish/I disappear/I pass away
*ninʿartî*: I am shaken off/driven away/tossed about

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Exod 10:19 : 19 And Jehovah turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea; there remained not one locust in all the border of Egypt.
1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Ps 102:10-11 : 10 Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: For thou hast taken me up, and cast me away. 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in [his] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
Eccl 8:13 : 13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Exod 10:13 : 13 And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all the night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.

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