Psalms 58:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

[ Let them be] as a snail which melteth and passeth away, [Like] the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ *חצו* *חִ֝צָּ֗יו* כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃‬

Transliteration

yimmāʾăsû kəmô-mayim yithalləkû-lāmô yidrōk ḥiṣṣāyw kəmô yitmōlālû

Grammar Details

*yimmāʾăsû*: niphal 3mp imperfect - they melt away/dissolve/disappear
*kəmô*-*mayim*: preposition + masculine plural noun - like water
*yithalləkû*-*lāmô*: hithpael 3mp imperfect + preposition lamed with 3mp suffix - they go about for themselves
*yidrōk*: qal 3ms imperfect - he bends/treads/directs
*ḥiṣṣāyw*: masculine plural noun + 3ms suffix - his arrows
*kəmô*: preposition - like/as
*yitmōlālû*: hithpolel 3mp imperfect - they are cut off/wither/are weakened

Word Meanings

*yimmāʾăsû*: melt away/dissolve/disappear/flow away
*yithalləkû*: go about/walk around/flow
*lāmô*: to them/for themselves (poetic form)
*yidrōk*: bends/treads/directs/aims
*ḥiṣṣāyw*: his arrows (text note indicates Kethib [written] *חצו* vs. Qere [read] *חצָיו*)
*yitmōlālû*: are cut off/wither/are weakened/become limp

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil. 36 But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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