Psalms 109:18

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּלְבַּ֥שׁ קְלָלָ֗ה כְּמַ֫דּ֥וֹ וַתָּבֹ֣א כַמַּ֣יִם בְּקִרְבּ֑וֹ וְ֝כַשֶּׁ֗מֶן בְּעַצְמוֹתָֽיו׃

Transliteration

And-wayyilbaš qəlālâ like-maddô and-wattābōʾ like-the-mayim in-qirbô and-like-the-šemen in-ʿaṣmôtāyw.

Grammar Details

• *wayyilbaš*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person masculine singular with waw-consecutive - and he put on/clothed himself
• *qəlālâ*: noun, feminine singular - curse
• *maddô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his garment
• *wattābōʾ*: verb, qal imperfect 3rd person feminine singular with waw-consecutive - and it entered
• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - water
• *qirbô*: noun, masculine singular with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his inward parts
• *šemen*: noun, masculine singular - oil
• *ʿaṣmôtāyw*: noun, feminine plural with 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his bones

Word Meanings

• *maddô*: his garment/his measure/his clothing
• *qirbô*: his inward parts/his midst/his inner being
• *šemen*: oil/fat/richness

Referenced Verses

• Ps 73:6 : 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain{H8804)}; violence covereth{H8799)} them as a garment.
• Num 5:22 : 22 And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.
• Num 5:27 : 27 And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
• Job 20:12-16 : 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.
• Job 20:20-23 : 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
• Job 29:14 : 14 I put on righteousness, and it clothed me: my judgment was as a robe and a diadem.
• Matt 26:24 : 24 {G3303} The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
• Matt 27:3-5 : 3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
• Acts 1:18 : 18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
• Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
• Col 3:8 : 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Col 3:12 : 12 Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
• 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.