Psalms 52:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou lovest all devouring words, O thou deceitful tongue.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַ֭וּוֹת תַּחְשֹׁ֣ב לְשׁוֹנֶ֑ךָ כְּתַ֥עַר מְ֝לֻטָּ֗שׁ עֹשֵׂ֥ה רְמִיָּֽה׃

Transliteration

hawwôt taḥšōb your-lāšôn, like-taʿar měluttāš ʿōśēh rěmiyyâ.

Grammar Details

*hawwôt*: noun, feminine plural - destruction/calamities/mischief
*taḥšōb*: imperfect, 2nd masculine singular, Qal - you devise/plan/think
*lěšôn*: noun, feminine singular - tongue/language
*-ěkā*: possessive suffix, 2nd masculine singular - your
*kě-*: preposition 'like/as'
*taʿar*: noun, masculine singular - razor
*měluttāš*: participle, masculine singular, Pual - sharpened
*ʿōśēh*: participle, masculine singular, Qal - making/doing/working
*rěmiyyâ*: noun, feminine singular - deceit/treachery

Word Meanings

*hawwôt*: destructions/disasters/calamities/mischief
*taḥšōb*: devise/plan/think/plot
*lāšôn*: tongue/language/speech
*taʿar*: razor/knife
*měluttāš*: sharpened/polished
*ʿōśēh*: making/doing/working/practicing
*rěmiyyâ*: deceit/treachery/deception/fraud

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 120:3 : 3 What shall be given unto thee, and what shall be done more unto thee, Thou deceitful tongue?
Jas 3:6-9 : 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beasts and birds, {G5037} of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. 9 Therewith {G846} bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith {G846} curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:
1 Sam 22:18-19 : 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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