Psalms 141:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כְּמ֤וֹ פֹלֵ֣חַ וּבֹקֵ֣עַ בָּאָ֑רֶץ נִפְזְר֥וּ עֲ֝צָמֵ֗ינוּ לְפִ֣י שְׁאֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

Like pōlēaḥ and-bōqēa' in-the-'āreṣ [earth], nipzərû 'ăṣāmênû [our bones] at-mouth-of šə'ôl.

Grammar Details

*pōlēaḥ*: verb, qal participle masculine singular - one who cleaves/splits
*bōqēa'*: verb, qal participle masculine singular - one who breaks open/cleaves
*'āreṣ*: noun, feminine singular - earth/land/ground
*nipzərû*: verb, niphal perfect 3rd person common plural - they are scattered
*'ăṣāmênû*: noun, feminine plural construct with 1st person plural suffix - our bones
*šə'ôl*: noun, feminine singular - Sheol/grave/underworld

Word Meanings

*pōlēaḥ*: one who cleaves/splits/cuts
*bōqēa'*: one who breaks open/cleaves/splits
*'āreṣ*: earth/land/ground/territory
*nipzərû*: they are scattered/dispersed/spread
*'ăṣāmênû*: our bones/strength
*šə'ôl*: Sheol/grave/pit/underworld

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Referenced Verses

Ps 53:5 : 5 There were they in great fear, where no fear was; For God hath scattered the bones of him that encampeth against thee: Thou hast put them to shame, because of God hath rejected them.
Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
2 Cor 1:9 : 9 yea, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead:
Heb 11:37 : 37 they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword: they went about in sheepskins, in {G122} goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, ill-treated
Rev 11:8-9 : 8 And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and {G863} suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

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