Psalms 49:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י יִרְאֶ֨ה ׀ חֲכָ֘מִ֤ים יָמ֗וּתוּ יַ֤חַד כְּסִ֣יל וָבַ֣עַר יֹאבֵ֑דוּ וְעָזְב֖וּ לַאֲחֵרִ֣ים חֵילָֽם׃

Transliteration

For yirʾeh ḥăḵāmîm yāmûtû yaḥad kəsîl wā-baʿar yōʾbēdû wə-ʿāzəbû la-ʾăḥērîm ḥêlām

Grammar Details

• *yirʾeh*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - 'he sees/will see'
• *ḥăḵāmîm*: adjective masculine plural - 'wise ones'
• *yāmûtû*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they die'
• *yaḥad*: adverb - 'together/alike'
• *kəsîl*: noun masculine singular - 'fool'
• *wā*: conjunction - 'and'
• *baʿar*: noun masculine singular - 'brutish/stupid person'
• *yōʾbēdû*: verb qal imperfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they perish'
• *wə*: conjunction - 'and'
• *ʿāzəbû*: verb qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they leave'
• *la*: preposition - 'to/for'
• *ʾăḥērîm*: adjective masculine plural - 'others'
• *ḥêlām*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their wealth'

Word Meanings

• *kəsîl*: fool/stupid person
• *baʿar*: brutish person/stupid/ignorant one
• *ḥêlām*: their wealth/strength/power

Referenced Verses

• Gen 4:17 : 17 And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.
• Ps 64:6 : 6 They search out iniquities; We have accomplished, [say they], a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
• Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; Their inward part is very wickedness; Their throat is an open sepulchre; They flatter with their tongue.
• Ps 10:6 : 6 He saith in his heart, I shall not be moved; To all generations I shall not be in adversity.
• Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
• Luke 11:39 : 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now {G2511} ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
• Deut 3:14 : 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and called them, even Bashan, after his own name, Havvoth-jair, unto this day.)
• 1 Sam 15:12 : 12 And Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
• 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom's monument, unto this day.