Psalms 116:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֲפָפ֤וּנִי ׀ חֶבְלֵי־מָ֗וֶת וּמְצָרֵ֣י שְׁא֣וֹל מְצָא֑וּנִי צָרָ֖ה וְיָג֣וֹן אֶמְצָֽא׃

Transliteration

ʾăpāpûnî ḥevlê-māvet and meṣārê šeʾôl meṣāʾûnî ṣārâ and yāgôn ʾemṣāʾ

Grammar Details

*ʾăpāpûnî*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural with 1st person singular suffix - they encompassed me
*ḥevlê*: noun, masculine plural construct - cords/bands of
*māvet*: noun, masculine singular - death
*û-meṣārê*: conjunction + noun, masculine plural construct - and distresses/straits of
*šeʾôl*: noun, proper noun - Sheol/grave/underworld
*meṣāʾûnî*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural with 1st person singular suffix - they found me
*ṣārâ*: noun, feminine singular - distress/trouble
*ve-yāgôn*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and sorrow
*ʾemṣāʾ*: verb, qal imperfect, 1st person singular - I found/I will find

Word Meanings

*ʾăpāpûnî*: they encompassed me/they surrounded me/they entangled me
*ḥevlê*: cords/bands/pains/pangs
*meṣārê*: distresses/straits/constraints
*šeʾôl*: Sheol/grave/underworld/realm of the dead
*ʾemṣāʾ*: I found/I encountered/I experienced

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled; I am bowed down{H8804)} greatly; I go{H8765)} mourning{H8802)} all the day long.
Ps 88:6-7 : 6 Thou hast laid{H8804)} me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps. 7 Thy wrath lieth hard{H8804)} upon me, and thou hast afflicted{H8765)} me with all thy waves. Selah.
Isa 53:3-4 : 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
Jonah 2:2-3 : 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice. 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.
Mark 14:33-36 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
Ps 18:4-6 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me. 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.

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