Psalms 101:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לַבְּקָרִ֗ים אַצְמִ֥ית כָּל־רִשְׁעֵי־אָ֑רֶץ לְהַכְרִ֥ית מֵֽעִיר־יְ֝הוָ֗ה כָּל־פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃

Transliteration

At the bĕqārîm I will ʾaṣmît all-rishʿê-ʾāreṣ, to hakhrit from ʿîr-YHWH all-pōʿălê ʾāwen.

Grammar Details

• *bĕqārîm*: masculine plural noun with prefix lā- (to/at) - mornings
• *ʾaṣmît*: Hiphil imperfect 1st person singular - I will destroy/cut off/silence
• *rishʿê*: masculine plural construct - wicked ones of
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - land/earth
• *hakhrit*: Hiphil infinitive construct with preposition lĕ- (to/for) - to cut off/destroy
• *ʿîr*: feminine singular construct - city of
• *YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
• *pōʿălê*: masculine plural construct - workers/doers of
• *ʾāwen*: masculine singular noun - iniquity/wickedness/trouble

Word Meanings

• *bĕqārîm*: mornings/every morning/at dawn
• *ʾaṣmît*: I will destroy/I will cut off/I will silence/I will put an end to
• *rishʿê*: wicked ones/evildoers/guilty ones
• *ʾāreṣ*: land/earth/country/ground
• *hakhrit*: to cut off/to destroy/to eliminate/to root out
• *ʿîr*: city/town/settlement
• *pōʿălê*: workers of/doers of/practitioners of
• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/wickedness/trouble/idolatry

Referenced Verses

• Ps 75:10 : 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off{H8762)}; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted{H8783)}.
• Jer 21:12 : 12 O house of David, thus saith the LORD; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my fury go out like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
• Ps 48:8 : 8 As we have heard{H8804)}, so have we seen{H8804)} in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish{H8787)} it for ever. Selah.
• Ps 48:2 : 2 Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.
• Ps 46:4 : 4 There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad{H8762)} the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
• Hos 9:3 : 3 They shall not dwell in the LORD'S land; but Ephraim shall return to Egypt, and they shall eat unclean things in Assyria.
• Mic 2:8-9 : 8 Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war. 9 The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my glory for ever. 10 Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.
• Mic 3:1-4 : 1 And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment? 2 Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; 3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron. 4 Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings.
• Mic 3:9 : 9 Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.
• Rev 22:14-15 : 14 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Ps 118:10-12 : 10 All nations compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD will I destroy them. 11 They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the LORD I will destroy them. 12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
• Prov 16:12 : 12 It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is established by righteousness.
• Prov 20:8 : 8 A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
• Prov 20:26 : 26 A wise king scattereth the wicked, and bringeth the wheel over them.