Psalms 90:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃

Transliteration

You zĕramtām šēnâ they yihyû; in boqer like ḥāṣîr yaḥălōp̄.

Grammar Details

*zĕramtām*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - you flood/sweep/carry away them
*šēnâ*: feminine singular - sleep
*yihyû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they are/become
*babboqer*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the morning
*keḥāṣîr*: preposition + masculine singular - like grass
*yaḥălōp̄*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - sprouts up/passes away/changes

Word Meanings

*zĕramtām*: you flood them away/you sweep them away/you end them
*šēnâ*: sleep/slumber/unconsciousness
*yihyû*: they become/they are/they exist
*boqer*: morning/daybreak
*ḥāṣîr*: grass/hay/vegetation
*yaḥălōp̄*: sprouts up/passes away/changes/grows anew/fades

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 40:6 : 6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
Job 22:16 : 16 Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,
Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.
Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
Isa 8:7-8 : 7 now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks; 8 and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isa 29:7-8 : 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her stronghold, and that distress her, shall be as a dream, a vision of the night. 8 And it shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors overtake him like waters; A tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
Job 9:26 : 26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
Job 20:8 : 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.
Jer 46:7-8 : 7 Who is this that riseth up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.
Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

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