Psalms 118:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou didst thrust sore at me that I might fall; But Jehovah helped me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

דַּחֹ֣ה דְחִיתַ֣נִי לִנְפֹּ֑ל וַ֖יהוָ֣ה עֲזָרָֽנִי

Transliteration

Daḥōh dəḥîtanî to-nəpōl and-YHWH ʿăzārānî

Grammar Details

• *Daḥōh*: infinitive absolute - pushing
• *dəḥîtanî*: perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person suffix - you pushed me
• *nəpōl*: infinitive construct with prefix lamed - to fall
• *YHWH*: divine name with prefix waw - and Yahweh
• *ʿăzārānî*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person suffix - he helped me

Word Meanings

• *Daḥōh dəḥîtanî*: pushing you pushed me/you violently pushed me/you thoroughly thrust at me
• *nəpōl*: to fall/to be cast down
• *ʿăzārānî*: he helped me/he assisted me/he came to my aid

Referenced Verses

• Ps 140:4 : 4 Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked; Preserve me from the violent man: Who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.
• Ps 18:17-18 : 17 He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from them that hated me; For they were too mighty for me. 18 They came upon me in the day of my calamity; But Jehovah was my stay.
• Ps 56:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam; when the Philistines took him in Gath. Be merciful unto me, O God; For man would swallow me up: All the day long he fighting oppresseth me. 2 Mine enemies would swallow me up all the day long; {H4791} For they are many that fight proudly against me. 3 What time I am afraid, I will put my trust in thee.
• Ps 86:17 : 17 Show me a token for good, That they who hate me may see it, and be put to shame, Because thou, Jehovah, hast helped me, and comforted me.
• 1 Sam 20:3 : 3 And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.
• 1 Sam 25:29 : 29 And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.
• 2 Sam 17:1-3 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 and I will come upon him while he is weary and weak-handed, {H3027} and will make him afraid; and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only; 3 and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: [so] all the people shall be in peace.
• Mic 7:8 : 8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.
• Matt 4:1-9 : 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2 And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he afterward hungered. 3 And the tempter came and said unto him, If thou art the Son of God, command that these stones become bread. 4 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5 Then the devil taketh him into the holy city; and he set him on the pinnacle of the temple, 6 and saith unto him, If thou art the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and, On their hands they shall bear thee up, lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7 Jesus said unto him, Again it is written, Thou shalt not make trial of the Lord thy God. 8 Again, the devil taketh him unto an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9 and he said unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11 Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
• Heb 2:14 : 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;