Psalms 74:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Why drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? [Pluck] [it] out of thy bosom [and] consume [them].

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֤מָּה תָשִׁ֣יב יָ֭דְךָ וִֽימִינֶ֑ךָ מִקֶּ֖רֶב *חוקך **חֽ͏ֵיקְךָ֣ כַלֵּֽה׃

Transliteration

Lammah tashiv yadcha viyminecha? From qerev cheiqcha kalleh.

Grammar Details

*Lammah*: interrogative + preposition - 'why/for what reason'
*tashiv*: hiphil imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you turn back/withdraw'
*yadcha*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your hand'
*viyminecha*: conjunction + feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'and your right hand'
*miqqerev*: preposition + masculine singular construct - 'from midst of'
*cheiqcha*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'your bosom'
*kalleh*: piel imperative masculine singular - 'destroy!/consume!'

Word Meanings

*tashiv*: you withdraw/hold back/turn back
*cheiqcha*: your bosom/chest/lap
*kalleh*: destroy/consume/bring to an end

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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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Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Lam 2:3 : 3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Ps 44:23 : 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
Ps 78:65-66 : 65 Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, Like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine. 66 And he smote his adversaries backward: He put them to a perpetual reproach.
Isa 64:12 : 12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Jehovah? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

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