Psalms 147:17

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He casteth forth his ice like morsels: Who can stand before his cold?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַשְׁלִ֣יךְ קַֽרְח֣וֹ כְפִתִּ֑ים לִפְנֵ֥י קָ֝רָת֗וֹ מִ֣י יַעֲמֹֽד׃

Transliteration

Mashlîkh qarhōw khephittîm liphnê qārāṯōw mî yaʿămōd

Grammar Details

*Mashlîkh*: participle, masculine singular, Hiphil - throwing/casting
*qarhōw*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his ice
*khephittîm*: preposition + noun, masculine plural - like morsels/pieces
*liphnê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - before/in the face of
*qārāṯōw*: noun, feminine singular + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his cold
*mî*: interrogative pronoun - who
*yaʿămōd*: imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular, Qal - can stand

Word Meanings

*Mashlîkh*: throws/casts down/hurls
*qarhōw*: his ice/his hail/his frost
*pittîm*: morsels/pieces/fragments/bits
*liphnê*: before/in the face of/in the presence of
*qārāṯōw*: his cold/his coldness/his freezing temperature
*yaʿămōd*: can stand/will endure/withstand

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Exod 9:23-25 : 23 And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt. 24 So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 25 And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree of the field.
Josh 10:11 : 11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Job 37:9-9 : 9 Out of the chamber [of the south] cometh the storm, And cold out of the north. 10 By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.
Job 38:22-23 : 22 Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail, 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?
Job 38:29-30 : 29 Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it? 30 The waters hide themselves [and become] like stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.
Ps 78:47-48 : 47 He destroyed their vines with hail, And their sycomore-trees with frost. 48 He gave over their cattle also to the hail, And their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

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