Psalms 73:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; My steps had well nigh slipped.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַאֲנִ֗י כִּ֭מְעַט *נטוי **נָטָ֣יוּ רַגְלָ֑י כְּ֝אַ֗יִן *שפכה **שֻׁפְּכ֥וּ אֲשֻׁרָֽי׃

Transliteration

Wa-ani kim'at natayu raglai; ke-ayin shuppechu ashuray.

Grammar Details

*Wa-ani*: conjunction waw + pronoun, 1st person singular - and I
*kim'at*: preposition + noun - as/like little/almost
*natayu*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural (ketiv/qere variation) - they stretched out/inclined
*raglai*: noun, feminine dual construct + 1st person singular suffix - my feet
*ke-ayin*: preposition + adverb - as nothing/almost
*shuppechu*: verb, pual perfect, 3rd person plural (ketiv/qere variation) - they were poured out
*ashuray*: noun, feminine plural construct + 1st person singular suffix - my steps

Word Meanings

*kim'at*: almost/nearly/within little
*natayu*: stretched out/inclined/slipped/bent (ketiv: *natuy* - inclined [singular]; qere: *natayu* - they inclined [plural])
*ke-ayin*: as nothing/almost
*shuppechu*: were poured out/slipped (ketiv: *shupkhah* - was poured [singular feminine]; qere: *shuppechu* - they were poured [plural])

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 94:18 : 18 When I said, My foot slippeth; Thy lovingkindness, O Jehovah, held me up.
1 Sam 2:9 : 9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
Ps 17:5 : 5 My steps have held fast to thy paths, My feet have not slipped.
Ps 17:15 : 15 As for me, I shall behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with [beholding] thy form.
Ps 38:16 : 16 For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
Ps 116:8 : 8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, Mine eyes from tears, [And] my feet from falling.
Rom 7:23-24 : 23 but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity under the law of sin which is in my members. 24 Wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?
Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
Ps 35:13 : 13 But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I afflicted my soul with fasting; And my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
1 Chr 22:7 : 7 And David said to Solomon his son, As for me, it was in my heart to build a house unto the name of Jehovah my God.
Job 12:5 : 5 In the thought of him that is at ease there is contempt for misfortune; It is ready for them whose foot slippeth.
Job 21:4 : 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.

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