Psalms 124:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בָּר֥וּךְ יְהוָ֑ה שֶׁלֹּ֥א נְתָנָ֥נוּ טֶ֝֗רֶף לְשִׁנֵּיהֶֽם׃

Transliteration

bārûk YHWH that-not nətānānû ṭerep to-šinnêhem

Grammar Details

*bārûk*: passive participle qal masculine singular - blessed
*YHWH*: proper noun - the divine name
*šellōʾ*: relative pronoun + negative particle - who not
*nətānānû*: verb qal perfect 3rd masculine singular + 1st person plural suffix - he gave us
*ṭerep*: noun masculine singular - prey/food
*ləšinnêhem*: preposition + noun feminine plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - to their teeth

Word Meanings

*bārûk*: blessed/praised
*ṭerep*: prey/torn food/ripping
*nətānānû ṭerep ləšinnêhem*: gave us as prey to their teeth/delivered us as food for their teeth

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Referenced Verses

Exod 15:9-9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters.
Judg 5:30-31 : 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil? 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.
1 Sam 26:20 : 20 Now therefore, let not my blood fall to the earth before the face of the LORD: for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea, as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains.
Ps 17:9 : 9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
Ps 118:13 : 13 Thou hast thrust sore at me that I might fall: but the LORD helped me.
Ps 145:5-6 : 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works. 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts: and I will declare thy greatness.
Isa 10:14-19 : 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. 15 Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood. 16 Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.

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