Psalms 31:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִכָּל־צֹרְרַ֨י הָיִ֪יתִי חֶרְפָּ֡ה וְלִשֲׁכֵנַ֨י ׀ מְאֹד֮ וּפַ֢חַד לִֽמְיֻדָּ֫עָ֥י רֹאַ֥י בַּח֑וּץ נָדְד֥וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

Transliteration

From-all-ṣōrəray hāyîtî ḥerpâ and-to-šăkēnay very and-paḥad to-məyuddāʿāy; rōʾay in-the-ḥûṣ nādədû from-me

Grammar Details

*ṣōrəray*: verb, participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my adversaries
*hāyîtî*: verb, perfect 1st person singular - I have become
*ḥerpâ*: noun, feminine singular - reproach/disgrace
*šăkēnay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my neighbors
*paḥad*: noun, masculine singular - dread/terror
*məyuddāʿāy*: verb, Pual participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my acquaintances
*rōʾay*: verb, participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - those seeing me
*ḥûṣ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and prefixed preposition beth - in the outside/street
*nādədû*: verb, perfect 3rd person plural - they have fled

Word Meanings

*ṣōrəray*: my adversaries/foes/enemies
*ḥerpâ*: reproach/disgrace/object of scorn
*paḥad*: dread/terror/fear
*məyuddāʿāy*: my acquaintances/those known to me
*nādədû*: fled/moved away/wandered

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 30:14 : 14 And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces thereof a sherd wherewith to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern.
Ps 88:4-5 : 4 I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no help, 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a wine-skin in the smoke; Yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Isa 38:11-12 : 11 I said, I shall not see Jehovah, [even] Jehovah in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Rom 9:21-22 : 21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction:
Rev 2:27 : 27 and he shall rule them with a rod of iron, as the vessels of the potter are broken to shivers; as I also have received of my Father:

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