Psalms 58:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫אַף־בְּלֵב֮ עוֹלֹ֢ת תִּפְעָ֫ל֥וּן בָּאָ֡רֶץ חֲמַ֥ס יְ֝דֵיכֶ֗ם תְּפַלֵּֽסֽוּן׃‬

Transliteration

ʾap-bəlēb ʿôlōt tipʿālûn bāʾāreṣ ḥămas yədêkem təpallēsûn

Grammar Details

*ʾap*: particle/conjunction - also/indeed/even
*bəlēb*: preposition bet + masculine singular noun - in heart
*ʿôlōt*: feminine plural noun - iniquities/wickedness
*tipʿālûn*: qal 2mp imperfect + paragogic nun - you(plural) work/do/practice
*bāʾāreṣ*: preposition bet + definite article + feminine singular noun - in the land/earth
*ḥămas*: masculine singular noun - violence/wrong
*yədêkem*: feminine dual noun + 2mp suffix - your hands
*təpallēsûn*: piel 2mp imperfect + paragogic nun - you(plural) weigh out/make level

Word Meanings

*ʾap*: also/indeed/even/moreover
*ʿôlōt*: iniquities/wickedness/injustice
*tipʿālûn*: work/do/practice/perform
*ḥămas*: violence/wrong/injustice/cruelty
*təpallēsûn*: weigh out/balance/make level/dispense

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
Isa 48:8 : 8 Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from of old thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou didst deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.
Eph 2:3 : 3 among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest: —
Prov 22:15 : 15 Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
Isa 46:3 : 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb;
Job 15:14 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Ps 22:10 : 10 I was cast upon thee from the womb; Thou art my God since my mother bare me.

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