Psalms 64:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

That they may shoot in secret places at the perfect: Suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲשֶׁ֤ר שָׁנְנ֣וּ כַחֶ֣רֶב לְשׁוֹנָ֑ם דָּרְכ֥וּ חִ֝צָּ֗ם דָּבָ֥ר מָֽר׃

Transliteration

ʾăšer šānənû like-the-ḥereb ləšônām dārəḵû ḥiṣṣām dābār mār

Grammar Details

*ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who
*šānənû*: perfect verb, 3rd person plural - they have sharpened
*ḥereb*: feminine singular noun with prefixed preposition kaf (like/as) - sword
*ləšônām*: feminine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural possessive suffix - their tongue
*dārəḵû*: perfect verb, 3rd person plural - they have bent/drawn
*ḥiṣṣām*: masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural possessive suffix - their arrow
*dābār*: masculine singular noun - word/thing
*mār*: masculine singular adjective - bitter

Word Meanings

*šānənû*: sharpened/whetted
*dārəḵû*: bent/drawn/aimed/strung
*dābār*: word/speech/thing/matter
*mār*: bitter/painful/poisonous

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 55:19 : 19 God will hear, and answer them, Even he that abideth of old, {H5542} [The men] who have no changes, And who fear not God.
Ps 59:3-4 : 3 For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul; The mighty gather themselves together against me: Not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O Jehovah. 4 They run and prepare themselves without [my] fault: Awake thou to help me, and behold.
Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Hab 3:14 : 14 Thou didst pierce with his own staves the head of his warriors: They came as a whirlwind to scatter me; Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
John 19:6 : 6 When therefore the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, saying, Crucify [him], crucify [him]! Pilate saith unto them, Take him yourselves, and crucify him: for I find no crime in him.
1 Pet 2:22-23 : 22 who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: 23 who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered threatened not; but committed [himself] to him that judgeth righteously:
1 Sam 18:11 : 11 and Saul cast the spear; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall. And David avoided out of his presence twice.
1 Sam 19:10 : 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
2 Sam 15:14 : 14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for else none of us shall escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us quickly, and bring down evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
Neh 4:11 : 11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
Ps 10:8-9 : 8 He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; In the secret places doth he murder the innocent; His eyes are privily set against the helpless. 9 He lurketh in secret as a lion in his covert; He lieth in wait to catch the poor: He doth catch the poor, when he draweth him in his net.
Ps 11:2 : 2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, They make ready their arrow upon the string, That they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart;

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