Psalms 37:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Cease from anger, and forsake{H8798)} wrath: fret{H8691)} not thyself in any wise to do evil{H8687)}.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֶ֣רֶף מֵ֭אַף וַעֲזֹ֣ב חֵמָ֑ה אַל־תִּ֝תְחַ֗ר אַךְ־לְהָרֵֽעַ׃

Transliteration

Herep from ʾap and ʿăzōb ḥēmâ; do not titḥar only to ləhārēaʿ.

Grammar Details

• *herep*: Hiphil imperative, masculine singular - cease/desist/let go
• *mēʾap*: preposition + masculine singular noun - from anger
• *ʿăzōb*: Qal imperative, masculine singular - abandon/forsake
• *ḥēmâ*: feminine singular noun - wrath/rage/hot anger
• *titḥar*: Hithpael imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - fret yourself
• *ʾak*: adverb - only/surely
• *ləhārēaʿ*: preposition + Hiphil infinitive construct - to do evil

Word Meanings

• *herep*: cease/desist/let go/refrain
• *ʾap*: anger/nose/face
• *ʿăzōb*: abandon/forsake/leave
• *ḥēmâ*: wrath/rage/hot anger/fury
• *ʾak-ləhārēaʿ*: only to do evil/only leads to evil-doing/surely to do harm

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:29 : 29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
• Eph 4:31 : 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
• Eph 4:26 : 26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
• Jas 3:14-18 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
• Prov 16:32 : 32 He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
• Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
• Col 3:8 : 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
• Jas 1:19-20 : 19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
• Luke 9:54-55 : 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.
• 1 Sam 25:21-23 : 21 Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good. 22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall. 23 And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and lighted off the ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground,
• Job 18:4 : 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
• Ps 31:22 : 22 For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.
• Ps 73:15 : 15 If I say{H8804)}, I will speak{H8762)} thus; behold, I should offend{H8804)} against the generation of thy children.
• Ps 116:11 : 11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.
• Jer 20:14-15 : 14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
• Jonah 4:1 : 1 But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
• Jonah 4:9 : 9 And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.