Psalms 22:16

Bishops' Bible (1568)

For dogges are come about me, the assemble of the wicked lay siege agaynst me: they haue pearced my handes and my feete, I may tell all my bones.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יָ֘בֵ֤שׁ כַּחֶ֨רֶשׂ ׀ כֹּחִ֗י וּ֭לְשׁוֹנִי מֻדְבָּ֣ק מַלְקוֹחָ֑י וְֽלַעֲפַר־מָ֥וֶת תִּשְׁפְּתֵֽנִי׃

Transliteration

yābēš like-ḥereś kōḥî and-ləšônî mudbāq malqôḥāy and-to-dust-of-māwet tišpətēnî

Grammar Details

• *yābēš*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'it is dried up'
• *ḥereś*: noun, masculine singular - 'potsherd/earthenware'
• *kōḥî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'my strength'
• *ləšônî*: noun, common singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'my tongue'
• *mudbāq*: verb, hophal participle, masculine singular - 'made to cling'
• *malqôḥāy*: noun, masculine dual with 1st person singular suffix - 'my jaws/gums'
• *māwet*: noun, masculine singular - 'death'
• *tišpətēnî*: verb, qal imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 1st person singular object suffix - 'you bring/place me'

Word Meanings

• *yābēš*: it is dried up/withered/parched
• *ḥereś*: potsherd/earthenware/clay
• *kōḥî*: my strength/power/might
• *mudbāq*: made to cling/stick/adhere
• *malqôḥāy*: my jaws/gums/palate
• *tišpətēnî*: you bring/place/lay me

Referenced Verses

• Zech 12:10 : 10 Moreouer, vpon the house of Dauid & vpon the citezins of Hierusalem wyll I poure out the spirite of grace & compassion, so that they shall loke vpon me whom they haue pearsed, and they shal lamet for him as men mourne for their onely begotten sonne: yea, and be sory for him, as men are sory for their first childe.
• Matt 27:35 : 35 When they had crucified hym, they parted his garmentes, & did cast lottes, that it myght be fulfylled whiche was spoken by the prophete: They departed my garmentes among them, & vpon my vesture dyd they cast lottes.
• John 19:23 : 23 Then the souldiers, when they had crucified Iesus, toke his garmentes, (& made foure partes, to euery souldier a part) and also his coate. The coate was without seame, wouen from the toppe throughout.
• John 19:37 : 37 And agayne another scripture saith: They shall loke on hym whom they pearsed.
• Luke 23:33 : 33 And after that they were come to the place whiche is called Caluarie, there they crucified hym, and the euyll doers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
• Mark 15:24 : 24 And when they had crucified hym, they parted his garmentes, castyng lottes vpon them, what euery man shoulde take.
• John 20:25 : 25 The other disciples therfore sayde vnto hym, we haue seene the Lorde. But he sayde vnto them: Except I see in his handes the print of the nayles, and put my fynger into the prynt of the nayles, and thruste my hande into his syde, I wyll not beleue.
• John 19:34 : 34 But one of the souldyers with a speare thruste hym into the syde, & foorthwith came there out blood and water.
• Luke 22:63-71 : 63 And the men that helde Iesus, mocked hym, and smote hym. 64 And when they had blindfolded him, they stroke hym on the face, and asked him, saying: Arede, who is it that smote thee? 65 And many other things blasphemouslye spake they against hym. 66 And assoone as it was day, the elders of the people, and the hye priestes, and scribes, came together, and led hym into their counsell, saying: 67 Art thou very Christe, tell vs? And he sayde vnto them: If I tell you, you wyll not beleue: 68 And if I aske you, you wyll not aunswere me, nor let me go. 69 Hereafter shall the sonne of man sit on the right hand of the power of God. 70 Then said they all: Art thou then the sonne of God? He sayde: Ye say yt I am. 71 And they sayd? What neede we any further witnesse? For we our selues haue hearde of his owne mouth.
• Luke 23:4-5 : 4 Then saide Pilate to the hye priestes, and to the people: I finde no fault in this man. 5 And they were the more fierce, saying: He moueth the people, teaching thorowout al Iurie, and began at Galilee, euen to this place.
• Luke 23:10-11 : 10 The hye priestes and scribes stoode foorth, and accused hym straytely. 11 And Herode with his men of warre despised him: and when he had mocked hym, he arayed hym in whyte clothing, and sent hym agayne to Pilate.
• Luke 23:23 : 23 And they were instant with loude voyces, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voyces of them, and of the hye priestes preuayled.
• Mark 15:16-20 : 16 And the souldiers led hym away, into the hall, called Prætorium, and called together the whole bande of souldiers: 17 And they clothed hym with purple, and they platted a crowne of thornes, and crowned hym withall, 18 And began to salute hym: Hayle kyng of the Iewes. 19 And they smote hym on the head with a reede, & did spit vpon him, and bowed their knees, and worshipped hym. 20 And when they had mocked hym, they toke the purple of hym, and put his owne clothes on hym, and led hym out to crucifie hym.
• Ps 22:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition of the mornyng hinde, a psalme of Dauid. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so farre from my health, and from the wordes of my complaynt?
• Ps 22:20 : 20 Delyuer my soule from the sworde: and my dearlyng from the dogges pawes.
• Ps 59:6 : 6 They go to and from at euening: they barke lyke a dogge, and runne about through the citie.
• Ps 59:14 : 14 And let them gad vp and downe at euening: let them barke lyke a dogge, and go about the citie.
• Ps 86:14 : 14 O God, the proude are rysen against me: a companie of outragious naughtipackes haue sought after my soule, and haue not set thee before their eyes.
• Isa 53:5 : 5 Wheras he notwithstandyng was wounded for our offences, and smitten for our wickednesse: for the payne of our punishment was layde vpon hym, and with his stripes are we healed.
• Jer 12:6 : 6 For thy brethren and thy kinrede haue altogether dispised thee, and cryed out vpon thee altogether: Beleue them not, though they speake faire wordes to thee.
• Matt 7:6 : 6 Geue not that which is holy, vnto dogges, neyther caste ye your pearles before swyne, lest they treade them vnder their feete, and turning agayne, all to rent you.
• Matt 26:57 : 57 And they toke Iesus, and ledde hym to Caiaphas the hye prieste, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.
• Luke 11:53-54 : 53 When he thus spake vnto them, the lawyers & the pharisees began to vrge hym vehemently, and to prouoke hym to speake many thynges. 54 Laying wayte for hym, and sekyng to catche somethyng out of his mouth, wherby they myght accuse hym.
• John 20:27 : 27 After that said he to Thomas: Bring thy fynger hyther, and see my handes, & reache hyther thy hande, and thrust it into my syde, and be not faythlesse, but beleuyng.
• Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of dogges, beware of euyll workers, beware of concision.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For without shalbe dogges, and inchaunters, and whoremongers, and murtherers, and idolaters, and whosoeuer loueth or maketh leasynges.