Psalms 88:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַיְסֻפַּ֣ר בַּקֶּ֣בֶר חַסְדֶּ֑ךָ אֱ֝מֽוּנָתְךָ֗ בָּאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃

Transliteration

?-yəsuppar in-the-qever ḥasdekā ʾĕmûnātəkā in-ʾăvaddôn

Grammar Details

*yəsuppar*: verb, Pual imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be declared/told
*qever*: noun, masculine, singular - grave/tomb
*ḥasdekā*: noun, masculine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your lovingkindness
*ʾĕmûnātəkā*: noun, feminine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your faithfulness
*ʾăvaddôn*: noun, masculine, singular - destruction/Abaddon

Word Meanings

*yəsuppar*: it will be declared/told/recounted/made known
*qever*: grave/tomb/burial place
*ḥasdekā*: your lovingkindness/steadfast love/mercy/covenant loyalty
*ʾĕmûnātəkā*: your faithfulness/trustworthiness/firmness
*ʾăvaddôn*: destruction/Abaddon/place of ruin/place of destruction

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Isa 8:22 : 22 and they shall look unto the earth, and behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish; and into thick darkness [they shall be] driven away.
Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
Job 10:21-22 : 21 Before I go whence I shall not return, [Even] to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death; 22 The land dark as midnight, [The land] of the shadow of death, without any order, And where the light is as midnight.
Ps 31:12 : 12 I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
Ps 88:5 : 5 Cast off among the dead, Like the slain that lie in the grave, Whom thou rememberest no more, And they are cut off from thy hand.
Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Eccl 2:16 : 16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
Eccl 8:10 : 10 So I saw the wicked buried, and they came [to the grave]; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 13:1
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Ps 92:2
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71%
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Ps 77:11-12
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2 Sam 22:29
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Ps 30:9
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