Psalms 124:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then they had swallowed us up alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲ֭זַי חַיִּ֣ים בְּלָע֑וּנוּ בַּחֲר֖וֹת אַפָּ֣ם בָּֽנוּ׃

Transliteration

then ḥayyîm bālʿûnû in-ḥărôt ʾappām against-us

Grammar Details

*ʾăzay*: adverb - then/at that time
*ḥayyîm*: adjective masculine plural - alive/living
*bālʿûnû*: verb qal perfect 3rd plural + 1st person plural suffix - they swallowed us
*baḥărôt*: preposition + infinitive construct qal - in burning of
*ʾappām*: noun masculine singular + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their anger/nostril
*bānû*: preposition + 1st person plural suffix - against us

Word Meanings

*ḥayyîm*: alive/living ones/while alive
*bālʿûnû*: swallowed us/engulfed us/devoured us
*ḥărôt ʾappām*: burning of their anger/their fierce anger/kindling of their wrath

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Referenced Verses

Ps 57:3 : 3 He will send from heaven, and save me, [When] he that would swallow me up reproacheth; {H5542} God will send forth his lovingkindness and his truth.
Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Ps 35:25 : 25 Let them not say in their heart, Aha, so would we have it: Let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Ps 56:1-2 : 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.
Jer 51:34 : 34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath, like a monster, swallowed me up, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies; he hath cast me out.
Dan 3:19 : 19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego: [therefore] he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace {H2298} seven times more than it was wont to be heated.
Jonah 1:17 : 17 And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Matt 2:16 : 16 Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the Wise-men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the male children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had exactly learned of the Wise-men.
Acts 9:2 : 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Ps 74:8 : 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 76:10 : 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee.
Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Num 16:30-34 : 30 But if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then ye shall understand that these men have despised Jehovah. 31 And it came to pass, as he made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them; 32 and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods. 33 So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed upon them, and they perished from among the assembly. 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.
1 Sam 20:30-33 : 30 Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness? 31 For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die. 32 And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him, Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done? 33 And Saul cast his spear at him to smite him; whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to put David to death.
Esth 3:6 : 6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Esth 3:12-13 : 12 Then were the king's scribes called in the first month, on the thirteenth day thereof; and there was written according to all that Haman commanded unto the king's satraps, and to the governors that were over every province, and to the princes of every people, to every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language; in the name of king Ahasuerus was it written, and it was sealed with the king's ring. 13 And letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Ps 27:2 : 2 When evil-doers came upon me to eat up my flesh, [Even] mine adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.

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Ps 124:4-7
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4Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;
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12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;
Ps 35:25
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Lam 3:46-47
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Lam 4:19
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3Have mercy upon us, O Jehovah, have mercy upon us; For we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
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Ps 21:9
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Ps 44:19
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2 Chr 20:11
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Lam 2:16
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Exod 15:10
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Num 16:32
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Ps 33:19
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