2 Samuel 22:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֥י אֲפָפֻ֖נִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת נַחֲלֵ֥י בְלִיַּ֖עַל יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃

Transliteration

For ʾăpāpunî mišberê-māwet; naḥălê beliyyaʿal yebaʿătunî.

Grammar Details

• *ʾăpāpunî*: Qal perfect 3cp with 1cs suffix - they encompassed me
• *mišberê*: masculine plural construct of *mišbār* - waves of
• *māwet*: masculine noun - death
• *naḥălê*: masculine plural construct of *naḥal* - torrents of
• *beliyyaʿal*: common noun - worthlessness/destruction
• *yebaʿătunî*: Piel imperfect 3mp with 1cs suffix - they terrify me

Word Meanings

• *ʾăpāpunî*: surrounded me, encompassed me, engulfed me
• *mišberê*: breakers, waves, billows
• *naḥălê*: torrents, streams, floods
• *beliyyaʿal*: worthlessness, wickedness, destruction
• *yebaʿătunî*: terrify me, overwhelm me, frighten me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 69:14-15 : 14 Deliver{H8685)} me out of the mire, and let me not sink{H8799)}: let me be delivered{H8735)} from them that hate{H8802)} me, and out of the deep waters. 15 Let not the waterflood overflow{H8799)} me, neither let the deep swallow me up{H8799)}, and let not the pit shut{H8799)} her mouth upon me.
• Jonah 2:3 : 3 For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
• 1 Thess 5:3 : 3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
• Rev 12:15-16 : 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.
• Rev 17:1 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
• Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up{H8804)}, O LORD, the floods have lifted up{H8804)} their voice; the floods lift up{H8799)} their waves. 4 The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
• Isa 59:19 : 19 So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
• Jer 46:7-8 : 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
• Ps 18:4 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.