Psalms 109:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am become also a reproach unto them: When they see me, they shake their head.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲנִ֤י ׀ הָיִ֣יתִי חֶרְפָּ֣ה לָהֶ֑ם יִ֝רְא֗וּנִי יְנִיע֥וּן רֹאשָֽׁם׃

Transliteration

And-ʾănî hāyîtî ḥerpâ to-them yirʾûnî yənîʿûn rōʾšām.

Grammar Details

• *ʾănî*: pronoun, 1st person singular - I
• *hāyîtî*: verb, qal perfect 1st person singular - I have become
• *ḥerpâ*: noun, feminine singular - reproach/object of scorn
• *yirʾûnî*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - they see me
• *yənîʿûn*: verb, hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - they shake
• *rōʾšām*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their head

Word Meanings

• *ḥerpâ*: reproach/scorn/object of derision
• *yənîʿûn* *rōʾšām*: they shake their head (gesture of mockery/derision)

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:6-7 : 6 But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people. 7 All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying],
• Ps 69:19-20 : 19 Thou knowest my reproach, and my shame, and my dishonor: Mine adversaries are all before thee. 20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: And I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; And for comforters, but I found none.
• Rom 15:3 : 3 For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.
• Heb 12:2 : 2 looking unto Jesus the author and perfecter of [our] faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
• Heb 13:13 : 13 Let us therefore go forth unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.
• Job 16:4 : 4 I also could speak as ye do; If your soul were in my soul's stead, I could join words together against you, And shake my head at you.
• Isa 37:22 : 22 this is the word which Jehovah hath spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion hath despised thee and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
• Matt 27:39-40 : 39 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, 40 and saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself: if thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross.
• Mark 15:29 : 29 And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ha! Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,
• Ps 31:11-13 : 11 Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me. 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. 13 For I have heard the defaming of many, Terror on every side: While they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
• Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not: 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
• Ps 69:9-9 : 9 For the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. 10 When I wept, [and chastened] my soul with fasting, That was to my reproach. 11 When I made sackcloth my clothing, I became a byword unto them. 12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.