Psalms 144:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֣ר פִּ֭יהֶם דִּבֶּר־שָׁ֑וְא וִֽ֝ימִינָ֗ם יְמִ֣ין שָֽׁקֶר׃

Transliteration

ʾĂšer pîhem dibber-šāwʾ, and their wîmînām yĕmîn šāqer.

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
*pîhem*: noun masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their mouth
*dibber*: Piel perfect, 3rd masculine singular - has spoken
*šāwʾ*: noun masculine singular - emptiness/falsehood/vanity
*wîmînām*: conjunction + noun feminine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their right hand
*yĕmîn*: noun feminine singular construct - right hand of
*šāqer*: noun masculine singular - falsehood/deception

Word Meanings

*pîhem*: their mouth (collective singular for plural 'mouths')
*dibber-šāwʾ*: has spoken emptiness/vanity/falsehood
*yĕmîn šāqer*: right hand of falsehood (idiom for deceptive oaths/promises)

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 12:2 : 2 They speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Ps 41:6 : 6 And if he come to see [me], he speaketh falsehood; His heart gathereth iniquity to itself: When he goeth abroad, he telleth it.
Isa 44:20 : 20 He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?
Isa 59:5-7 : 5 They hatch adders' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth; and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper. 6 Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands. 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Matt 5:30 : 30 And if thy right hand causeth thee to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not thy whole body go into hell.
Rev 13:16-17 : 16 And he causeth all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead; 17 and that no man should be able to buy or to sell, save he that hath the mark, [even] the name of the beast or the number of his name.
Ps 58:3 : 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
Ps 62:4 : 4 They only consult to thrust him down from his dignity; They delight in lies; They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. {H5542}
Ps 106:26 : 26 Therefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
Ps 109:2-3 : 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me: They have spoken unto me with a lying tongue. 3 They have compassed me about also with words of hatred, And fought against me without a cause.
Gen 14:22 : 22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
Deut 32:40 : 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, And say, As I live for ever,
Ps 10:7 : 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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11Rescue me, and deliver me out of the hand of {H5236} aliens, Whose mouth speaketh deceit, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood.
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7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression: Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.
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