Psalms 18:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַתִּגְעַ֬שׁ וַתִּרְעַ֨שׁ ׀ הָאָ֗רֶץ וּמוֹסְדֵ֣י הָרִ֣ים יִרְגָּ֑זוּ וַ֝יִּתְגָּֽעֲשׁ֗וּ כִּי־חָ֥רָה לֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And tig'ash and tir'ash the arets and mosdey the harim yirgazu and yitga'ashu because-charah to him.

Grammar Details

*tig'ash*: qal imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and it shook
*tir'ash*: qal imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person feminine singular - and it trembled
*arets*: feminine singular noun with definite article - the earth/land
*mosdey*: construct state, masculine plural - foundations of
*harim*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the mountains
*yirgazu*: qal imperfect, 3rd person plural - they quaked
*yitga'ashu*: hitpael imperfect with waw-consecutive, 3rd person plural - and they shook
*charah*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he was angry

Word Meanings

*tig'ash*: it shook/it quaked/it reeled
*tir'ash*: it trembled/it quaked/it shook
*mosdey*: foundations of/bases of/footings of
*yirgazu*: they quaked/they trembled/they shook
*yitga'ashu*: they shook/they reeled/they tottered
*charah*: he was angry/he burned with anger/he was wrathful

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Referenced Verses

Ps 21:9 : 9 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come{H8799)}, and shall not keep silence{H8799)}: a fire shall devour{H8799)} before him, and it shall be very tempestuous{H8738)} round about him.
Ps 74:1 : 1 Maschil{H8688)} of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off{H8804)} for ever? why doth thine anger smoke{H8799)} against the sheep of thy pasture?
Ps 104:32 : 32 He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth: he toucheth the hills, and they smoke.
Ps 144:5-6 : 5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. 6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Amos 4:11 : 11 I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Gen 19:28 : 28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Lev 10:2 : 2 And there went out fire from the LORD, and devoured them, and they died before the LORD.
Num 11:1 : 1 And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Num 16:35 : 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
Deut 29:20 : 20 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven.
Deut 29:23-24 : 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath: 24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
Ps 11:6 : 6 Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

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