Psalms 18:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, And fire out of his mouth devoured: Coals were kindled by it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתִּגְעַ֬שׁ וַתִּרְעַ֨שׁ ׀ הָאָ֗רֶץ וּמוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים יִרְגָּ֑זוּ וַ֝יִּתְגָּֽעֲשׁ֗וּ כִּי־חָ֥רָה לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And tig'ash and tir'ash the arets and mosdey the harim yirgazu and yitga'ashu because-charah to him.

Grammar Details

*tig'ash*: qal imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and it shook
*tir'ash*: qal imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and it trembled
*arets*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
*mosdey*: construct state, masculine plural - foundations of
*harim*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the mountains
*yirgazu*: qal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they quaked
*yitga'ashu*: hitpael imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person plural - and they shook
*charah*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he was angry

Word Meanings

*tig'ash*: it shook/it quaked/it reeled
*tir'ash*: it trembled/it quaked/it shook
*mosdey*: foundations of/bases of/footings of
*yirgazu*: they quaked/they trembled/they shook
*yitga'ashu*: they shook/they reeled/they tottered
*charah*: he was angry/he burned with anger/he was wrathful

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Referenced Verses

Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou wilt make them as a fiery furnace in the time of thine anger: Jehovah will swallow them up in his wrath, And the fire shall devour them.
Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Ps 74:1 : 1 Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast [us] off for ever? Why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?
Ps 104:32 : 32 Who looketh on the earth, and it trembleth; He toucheth the mountains, and they smoke.
Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O Jehovah, and come down: Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousands of thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed.
Gen 19:28 : 28 and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Lev 10:2 : 2 And there came forth fire from before Jehovah, and devoured them, and they died before Jehovah.
Num 11:1 : 1 And the people were as murmurers, [speaking] evil in the ears of Jehovah: and when Jehovah heard it, his anger was kindled; and the fire of Jehovah burnt among them, and devoured in the uttermost part of the camp.
Num 16:35 : 35 And fire came forth from Jehovah, and devoured the two hundred and fifty men that offered the incense.
Deut 29:20 : 20 Jehovah will not pardon him, but then the anger of Jehovah and his jealousy will smoke against that man, and all the curse that is written in this book shall lie upon him, and Jehovah will blot out his name from under heaven.
Deut 29:23-24 : 23 [ and that] the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.

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