Psalms 7:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery [shafts].

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אִם־לֹ֣א יָ֭שׁוּב חַרְבּ֣וֹ יִלְט֑וֹשׁ קַשְׁתּ֥וֹ דָ֝רַ֗ךְ וַֽיְכוֹנְנֶֽהָ׃

Transliteration

if-not yāshûb ḥarbô yilṭôsh qashtô dāraḵ wayḵônənehā

Grammar Details

*ʾim-lōʾ*: conditional particle + negative particle - if not
*yāshûb*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will turn/repent
*ḥarbô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his sword
*yilṭôsh*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will sharpen
*qashtô*: noun, feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his bow
*dāraḵ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has bent/drawn
*wayḵônənehā*: conjunction + verb, polel imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - and he has fixed it/prepared it

Word Meanings

*yāshûb*: will turn/will repent/will return
*yilṭôsh*: will sharpen/will whet
*dāraḵ*: bent/drawn/tread (a bow)
*wayḵônənehā*: has fixed it/prepared it/made it ready

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Referenced Verses

Ps 45:5 : 5 Thine arrows are sharp; The peoples fall under thee; [They are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
Ps 64:3 : 3 Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Ps 64:7 : 7 But God will shoot at them; With an arrow suddenly shall they be wounded.
Ps 144:6 : 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Lam 3:12-13 : 12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow. 13 He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.
Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows as they went, At the shining of thy glittering spear.
Hab 3:13 : 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked man, Laying bare the foundation even unto the neck. Selah.
2 Thess 1:6 : 6 if so be that it is righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
Rev 6:10 : 10 and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Rev 16:6 : 6 for they poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, and blood hast thou given them to drink: {G1063} they are worthy.
Deut 32:23 : 23 I will heap evils upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them:
Deut 32:42 : 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And my sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the slain and the captives, From the head of the leaders of the enemy.
Job 6:4 : 4 For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, The poison whereof my spirit drinketh up: The terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
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;
Ps 18:14 : 14 And he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; Yea, lightnings manifold, and discomfited them.

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