Psalms 73:14

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וָאֱהִ֣י נָ֭גוּעַ כָּל־הַיּ֑וֹם וְ֝תוֹכַחְתִּ֗י לַבְּקָרִֽים׃

Transliteration

Wa'ehi nagua' kol-hayyom, wetokhachti labbeqarim.

Grammar Details

*Wa'ehi*: conjunction + verb, qal imperfect with waw consecutive, 1st person singular - and I was
*nagua'*: verb, passive participle, masculine singular - struck/afflicted
*kol-hayyom*: noun, masculine singular construct + article + noun, masculine singular - all the day
*wetokhachti*: conjunction + noun, feminine singular construct + 1st person singular suffix - and my chastisement
*labbeqarim*: preposition + article + noun, masculine plural - at the mornings

Word Meanings

*hayah*: was/became/existed
*nagua'*: struck/afflicted/plagued
*kol-hayyom*: all the day/every day
*tokhachah*: chastisement/reproof/rebuke
*beqarim*: mornings/every morning

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Job 7:3-4 : 3 So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Job 7:18 : 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
Job 10:3 : 3 Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, That thou shouldest despise the work of thy hands, And shine upon the counsel of the wicked?
Job 10:17 : 17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me: Changes and warfare are with me.
Ps 34:19 : 19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
Ps 94:12 : 12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Jehovah, And teachest out of thy law;
Jer 15:18 : 18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful [brook], as waters that fail?
Amos 3:2 : 2 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.
Heb 12:5 : 5 and ye have forgotten the exhortation which reasoneth with you as with sons, My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord, Nor faint when thou art reproved of him;
1 Pet 1:6 : 6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,

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