Psalms 37:2

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither{H8799)} as the green herb.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כִּ֣י כֶ֭חָצִיר מְהֵרָ֣ה יִמָּ֑לוּ וּכְיֶ֥רֶק דֶּ֝֗שֶׁא יִבּוֹלֽוּן׃

Transliteration

For like ḥāṣîr quickly they yimmālû, and like yereq dešeʾ they yibbôlûn.

Grammar Details

• *kî*: conjunction - for/because
• *ḥāṣîr*: masculine singular noun - grass/hay
• *məhērâ*: adverb - quickly/speedily
• *yimmālû*: Niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they will be cut down/wither
• *yereq*: masculine singular construct - green thing of
• *dešeʾ*: masculine singular noun - grass/vegetation
• *yibbôlûn*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural (paragogic nun) - they will wither/fade

Word Meanings

• *ḥāṣîr*: grass/hay/herb
• *yimmālû*: will be cut down/will wither/will fade
• *yereq dešeʾ*: green grass/green herb/green vegetation
• *yibbôlûn*: will wither/will fade/will fall away

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
• Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.
• Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading{H8693)} himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought{H8762)} him, but he could not be found{H8738)}.
• Ps 73:17-20 : 17 Until I went{H8799)} into the sanctuary of God; then understood{H8799)} I their end. 18 Surely thou didst set{H8799)} them in slippery places: thou castedst them down{H8689)} into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly{H8804)} consumed{H8804)} with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh{H8687)}; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise{H8799)} their image.
• Ps 90:5-6 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}. 6 In the morning it flourisheth{H8686)}, and groweth up{H8804)}; in the evening it is cut down{H8787)}, and withereth{H8804)}.
• Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring{H8800)} as the grass, and when all the workers{H8802)} of iniquity do flourish{H8686)}; it is that they shall be destroyed{H8736)} for ever:
• Ps 129:5-7 : 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion. 6 Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up: 7 Wherewith the mower filleth not his hand; nor he that bindeth sheaves his bosom.
• Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
• 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: