Psalms 55:4

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My heart is sore pained{H8799)} within me: and the terrors of death are fallen{H8804)} upon me.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִקּ֤וֹל אוֹיֵ֗ב מִפְּנֵ֣י עָקַ֣ת רָשָׁ֑ע כִּי־יָמִ֥יטוּ עָלַ֥י אָ֝֗וֶן וּבְאַ֥ף יִשְׂטְמֽוּנִי׃

Transliteration

from qôl ʾôyēb, from before ʿāqat rāšāʿ, because they yāmîṭû upon me ʾāwen and in ʾap they yiśṭəmûnî

Grammar Details

• *qôl*: masculine singular construct with prefixed preposition min (from) - from voice of
• *ʾôyēb*: qal participle, masculine singular - enemy
• *ʿāqat*: feminine singular construct - oppression of
• *rāšāʿ*: masculine singular adjective - wicked
• *yāmîṭû*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural - they bring down/cast
• *ʾāwen*: masculine singular noun - iniquity/trouble
• *ʾap*: masculine singular noun with prefixed preposition beth (in) - in anger
• *yiśṭəmûnî*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - they hate me/persecute me

Word Meanings

• *qôl*: voice/sound
• *ʾôyēb*: enemy/foe
• *ʿāqat*: oppression/pressure/distress
• *rāšāʿ*: wicked/evil person
• *yāmîṭû*: they bring down/they cast/they drop
• *ʾāwen*: iniquity/trouble/wickedness
• *ʾap*: anger/nostril/face
• *yiśṭəmûnî*: they hate me/they persecute me/they oppose me

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:3 : 3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
• Ps 18:4-5 : 4 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. 5 The sorrows of hell compassed me about: the snares of death prevented me.
• Ps 69:20 : 20 Reproach hath broken{H8804)} my heart; and I am full of heaviness{H8799)}: and I looked{H8762)} for some to take pity{H8800)}, but there was none; and for comforters{H8764)}, but I found{H8804)} none.
• Ps 88:3 : 3 For my soul is full{H8804)} of troubles: and my life draweth nigh{H8689)} unto the grave.
• Ps 102:3-5 : 3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth. 4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
• Isa 38:10-13 : 10 I said in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the grave: I am deprived of the residue of my years. 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. 13 I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
• Matt 26:37-38 : 37 And he took with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be sorrowful and very heavy. 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me.
• Mark 14:33-34 : 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy; 34 And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch.
• John 12:27 : 27 Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.
• 2 Cor 1:8-9 : 8 For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life: 9 But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead: 10 Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Ps 6:3 : 3 My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?