Psalms 1:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹא־כֵ֥ן הָרְשָׁעִ֑ים כִּ֥י אִם־כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץ אֲ‍ֽשֶׁר־תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּ רֽוּחַ׃

Transliteration

Not-so the-rəšāʿîm but if-like-mōṣ which-tiddefennû rûaḥ

Grammar Details

*lōʾ-kēn*: negative + adverb - not so
*hā-rəšāʿîm*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the wicked ones
*kî ʾim-*: conjunction phrase - but rather/but instead
*ka-*: preposition - like/as
*mōṣ*: masculine singular - chaff
*ʾăšer-*: relative pronoun - which/that
*tiddefennû*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - it drives it away
*rûaḥ*: feminine singular - wind/spirit/breath

Word Meanings

*lōʾ-kēn*: not so/not thus
*rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/evil-doers/ungodly
*kî ʾim*: but rather/but instead/except
*mōṣ*: chaff/husks/straw
*tiddefennû*: drives away/scatters/blows away
*rûaḥ*: wind/spirit/breath

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Referenced Verses

Job 21:18 : 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Matt 3:12 : 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
Ps 35:5 : 5 Let them be as chaff before the wind: and let the angel of the LORD chase them.
Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isa 29:5 : 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
Hos 13:3 : 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.

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