Psalms 49:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

קִרְבָּ֤ם בָּתֵּ֨ימוֹ ׀ לְֽעוֹלָ֗ם מִ֭שְׁכְּנֹתָם לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹ֑ר קָֽרְא֥וּ בִ֝שְׁמוֹתָ֗ם עֲלֵ֣י אֲדָמֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

qirbām bāttêmô lə-ʿôlām miškənōtām lə-dōr wā-dōr qārəʾû bi-šəmôtām ʿălê ʾădāmôt

Grammar Details

*qirbām*: noun masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their inward thought'
*bāttêmô*: noun masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their houses'
*lə*: preposition - 'to'
*ʿôlām*: noun masculine singular - 'forever/eternity'
*miškənōtām*: noun feminine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their dwelling places'
*dōr*: noun masculine singular - 'generation'
*wā*: conjunction - 'and'
*qārəʾû*: verb qal perfect 3rd person masculine plural - 'they call/proclaim'
*bi*: preposition - 'with/by'
*šəmôtām*: noun masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'their names'
*ʿălê*: preposition - 'upon'
*ʾădāmôt*: noun feminine plural - 'lands'

Word Meanings

*qirbām*: their inward thought/midst/inner being
*bāttêmô*: their houses/dwellings
*miškənōtām*: their dwelling places/tabernacles/habitations

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 49:20 : 20 Man that is in honor, and understandeth not, Is like the beasts that perish.
Ps 82:7 : 7 Nevertheless ye shall die like men, And fall like one of the princes.
Eccl 3:18-21 : 18 I said in my heart, [It is] because of the sons of men, that God may prove them, and that they may see that they themselves are [but as] beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; and man hath no preeminence above the beasts: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man, whether it goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast, whether it goeth downward to the earth?
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

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