Psalms 91:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, [and] from the noisome pestilence.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֤י ה֣וּא יַ֭צִּֽילְךָ מִפַּ֥ח יָק֗וּשׁ מִדֶּ֥בֶר הַוּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

For hûʾ yaṣṣîlĕkā from paḥ yāqûš, from deber hawwôt.

Grammar Details

• *hûʾ*: 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - he
• *yaṣṣîlĕkā*: Hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - he will deliver you
• *paḥ*: masculine singular construct - snare/trap
• *yāqûš*: Qal participle, masculine singular - fowler/trapper
• *deber*: masculine singular construct - pestilence/plague
• *hawwôt*: feminine plural noun - destruction/calamities

Word Meanings

• *yaṣṣîlĕkā*: he will deliver you/rescue you/save you
• *paḥ yāqûš*: snare of the fowler/trap of the hunter
• *deber*: pestilence/plague/deadly disease
• *hawwôt*: destructions/calamities/ruinous conditions/deadly plagues

Referenced Verses

• Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
• Ps 141:9 : 9 Keep me from the snares [which] they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity.
• Job 5:10-22 : 10 Who giveth rain upon the earth, and sendeth waters upon the fields: 11 To set up on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety. 12 He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform [their] enterprise. 13 He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. 14 They meet with darkness in the daytime, and grope in the noonday as in the night. 15 But he saveth the poor from the sword, from their mouth, and from the hand of the mighty. 16 So the poor hath hope, and iniquity stoppeth her mouth. 17 ¶ Behold, happy [is] the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: 18 For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. 19 He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. 20 In famine he shall redeem thee from death: and in war from the power of the sword. 21 Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh. 22 At destruction and famine thou shalt laugh: neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.
• Ps 91:6 : 6 [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.
• 1 Tim 6:9 : 9 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Prov 6:5 : 5 Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand [of the hunter], and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
• Prov 7:23 : 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it [is] for his life.
• Eccl 9:12 : 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so [are] the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
• Hos 9:8 : 8 The watchman of Ephraim [was] with my God: [but] the prophet [is] a snare of a fowler in all his ways, [and] hatred in the house of his God.
• Num 14:37-38 : 37 Even those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 38 But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, [which were] of the men that went to search the land, lived [still].
• 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
• 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, [or] if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness [there be];
• Num 16:46-48 : 46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun. 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and, behold, the plague was begun among the people: and he put on incense, and made an atonement for the people. 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
• Amos 3:5 : 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin [is] for him? shall [one] take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?
• 2 Tim 2:26 : 26 And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.