Psalms 22:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; And my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; And thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּמַּ֥יִם נִשְׁפַּכְתִּי֮ וְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּ כָּֽל־עַצְמ֫וֹתָ֥י הָיָ֣ה לִ֭בִּי כַּדּוֹנָ֑ג נָ֝מֵ֗ס בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי׃

Transliteration

Like-the-mayim nišpaktî and-hitpārədû all-ʿaṣmôtāy hāyâ libbî like-dônāg nāmēs in-midst-of mēʿāy

Grammar Details

• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - 'waters'
• *nišpaktî*: verb, niphal perfect, 1st person singular - 'I am poured out'
• *hitpārədû*: verb, hithpael perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they separate themselves'
• *ʿaṣmôtāy*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person singular suffix - 'my bones'
• *hāyâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'it is/has become'
• *libbî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'my heart'
• *dônāg*: noun, masculine singular - 'wax'
• *nāmēs*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - 'melting'
• *mēʿāy*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - 'my inward parts'

Word Meanings

• *nišpaktî*: I am poured out/spilled/emptied
• *hitpārədû*: they separate themselves/are disjointed/divided
• *libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
• *nāmēs*: melting/dissolving
• *mēʿāy*: my inward parts/entrails/bowels

Referenced Verses

• John 19:28 : 28 After this Jesus, knowing that all things are now finished, that the scripture might be accomplished, saith, I thirst.
• Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A cheerful heart is a good medicine; But a broken spirit drieth up the bones.
• Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave me also gall for my food; And in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
• Job 29:10 : 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
• Job 34:15 : 15 All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.
• Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
• Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: My moisture was changed [as] with the drought of summer. {H5542}
• Ps 38:10 : 10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
• Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
• Gen 3:19 : 19 in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, who am but dust and ashes:
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down in the dust; And thou wilt seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
• Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast fashioned me as clay; And wilt thou bring me into dust again?
• 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I delivered unto you {G1722} first of all that which also I received: that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• Lam 4:4 : 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Matt 27:50 : 50 And Jesus cried again with a loud voice, and yielded up his spirit.