Psalms 74:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֣ה בָ֭קַעְתָּ מַעְיָ֣ן וָנָ֑חַל אַתָּ֥ה ה֝וֹבַ֗שְׁתָּ נַהֲר֥וֹת אֵיתָֽן׃

Transliteration

Attah baqa'ta ma'yan vanachal, attah hovashta naharot eitan.

Grammar Details

*Attah*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - 'you'
*baqa'ta*: qal perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you split open'
*ma'yan*: masculine singular noun - 'spring'
*vanachal*: conjunction + masculine singular noun - 'and stream/wadi'
*hovashta*: hiphil perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you dried up'
*naharot*: feminine plural construct - 'rivers of'
*eitan*: masculine singular adjective - 'ever-flowing/perennial'

Word Meanings

*baqa'ta*: split open/broke open/cleaved
*ma'yan*: spring/fountain
*nachal*: stream/wadi/torrent
*hovashta*: dried up/made dry
*naharot eitan*: ever-flowing rivers/mighty rivers/perennial streams

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Referenced Verses

Num 20:11 : 11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and smote the rock with his rod twice: and water came forth abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their cattle.
Exod 17:5-6 : 5 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Pass on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thy hand, and go. 6 Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.
Ps 105:41 : 41 He opened the rock, and waters gushed out; They ran in the dry places [like] a river.
Isa 48:21 : 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
Josh 2:10 : 10 For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Josh 3:13-17 : 13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people; 15 and when they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,) 16 that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. 17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.
2 Kgs 2:8 : 8 And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.
2 Kgs 2:14 : 14 And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is Jehovah, the God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they were divided hither and thither; and Elisha went over.
Ps 78:15 : 15 He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
Isa 11:16 : 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 44:27 : 27 that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers;
Exod 14:21-22 : 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. 22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.
Hab 3:9 : 9 Thy bow was made quite bare; The oaths to the tribes were a [sure] word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
Rev 16:12 : 12 And the sixth {G32} poured out his bowl upon the great river, the [river] Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might by made ready for the kings that [come] from the {G2246} sunrising.

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