Psalms 74:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: Thou brakest the heads of the sea-monsters in the waters.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֤ה פוֹרַ֣רְתָּ בְעָזְּךָ֣ יָ֑ם שִׁבַּ֖רְתָּ רָאשֵׁ֥י תַ֝נִּינִ֗ים עַל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

Transliteration

Attah porarta ve'azzcha yam, you shibbarta rashei tanninim upon ha-mayim.

Grammar Details

*Attah*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - 'you'
*porarta*: polel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you divided/split'
*ve'azzcha*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'with your strength'
*yam*: masculine singular noun - 'sea'
*shibbarta*: piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you shattered'
*rashei*: masculine plural construct - 'heads of'
*tanninim*: masculine plural noun - 'sea monsters/dragons'
*al-hammayim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - 'upon the waters'

Word Meanings

*porarta*: divided/split/broke up
*yam*: sea/ocean/large body of water
*shibbarta*: shattered/broke/crushed
*tanninim*: sea monsters/dragons/great reptiles

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:21 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and Jehovah caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Ps 78:13 : 13 He clave the sea, and caused them to pass through; And he made the waters to stand as a heap.
Ezek 29:3 : 3 speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster that lieth in the midst of his rivers, that hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Ps 106:8-9 : 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, That he might make his mighty power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up: So he led them through the depths, as through a wilderness.
Ps 136:13-18 : 13 To him that divided the Red Sea in sunder; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 16 To him that led his people through the wilderness; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever: 17 To him that smote great kings; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever; 18 And slew famous kings; For his lovingkindness [endureth] for ever:
Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And Jehovah will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind will he wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dryshod. 16 And there shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, that shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of Jehovah; awake, as in the days of old, the generations of ancient times. Is it not thou that didst cut Rahab in pieces, that didst pierce the monster? 10 Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
Exod 14:28 : 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, even all the host of Pharaoh that went in after them into the sea; there remained not so much as one of them.
Neh 9:11 : 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their pursuers thou didst cast into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Ps 66:6 : 6 He turned the sea into dry land; They went through the river on foot: There did we rejoice in him.

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