Psalms 31:12

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִכָּל־צֹרְרַ֨י הָיִ֪יתִי חֶרְפָּ֡ה וְלִשֲׁכֵנַ֨י ׀ מְאֹד֮ וּפַ֢חַד לִֽמְיֻדָּ֫עָ֥י רֹאַ֥י בַּח֑וּץ נָדְד֥וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

Transliteration

From-all-ṣōrəray hāyîtî ḥerpâ and-to-šăkēnay very and-paḥad to-məyuddāʿāy; rōʾay in-the-ḥûṣ nādədû from-me

Grammar Details

*ṣōrəray*: verb, participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my adversaries
*hāyîtî*: verb, perfect 1st person singular - I have become
*ḥerpâ*: noun, feminine singular - reproach/disgrace
*šăkēnay*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my neighbors
*paḥad*: noun, masculine singular - dread/terror
*məyuddāʿāy*: verb, Pual participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my acquaintances
*rōʾay*: verb, participle masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - those seeing me
*ḥûṣ*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and prefixed preposition beth - in the outside/street
*nādədû*: verb, perfect 3rd person plural - they have fled

Word Meanings

*ṣōrəray*: my adversaries/foes/enemies
*ḥerpâ*: reproach/disgrace/object of scorn
*paḥad*: dread/terror/fear
*məyuddāʿāy*: my acquaintances/those known to me
*nādədû*: fled/moved away/wandered

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Referenced Verses

Isa 30:14 : 14 And he shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces; he shall not spare: so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it a sherd to take fire from the hearth, or to take water withal out of the pit.
Ps 88:4-5 : 4 I am counted{H8738)} with them that go down{H8802)} into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength: 5 Free among the dead{H8801)}, like the slain that lie{H8802)} in the grave, whom thou rememberest{H8804)} no more: and they are cut off{H8738)} from thy hand.
Ps 119:83 : 83 For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.
Ps 2:9 : 9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
Isa 38:11-12 : 11 I said, I shall not see the LORD, even the LORD, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 12 Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Rom 9:21-22 : 21 {G2228} Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
Rev 2:27 : 27 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father.

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