Psalms 58:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away{H8799)}: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see{H8804)} the sun.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ *חצו* *חִ֝צָּ֗יו* כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃‬

Transliteration

yimmāʾăsû kəmô-mayim yithalləkû-lāmô yidrōk ḥiṣṣāyw kəmô yitmōlālû

Grammar Details

*yimmāʾăsû*: niphal 3mp imperfect - they melt away/dissolve/disappear
*kəmô*-*mayim*: preposition + masculine plural noun - like water
*yithalləkû*-*lāmô*: hithpael 3mp imperfect + preposition lamed with 3mp suffix - they go about for themselves
*yidrōk*: qal 3ms imperfect - he bends/treads/directs
*ḥiṣṣāyw*: masculine plural noun + 3ms suffix - his arrows
*kəmô*: preposition - like/as
*yitmōlālû*: hithpolel 3mp imperfect - they are cut off/wither/are weakened

Word Meanings

*yimmāʾăsû*: melt away/dissolve/disappear/flow away
*yithalləkû*: go about/walk around/flow
*lāmô*: to them/for themselves (poetic form)
*yidrōk*: bends/treads/directs/aims
*ḥiṣṣāyw*: his arrows (text note indicates Kethib [written] *חצו* vs. Qere [read] *חצָיו*)
*yitmōlālû*: are cut off/wither/are weakened/become limp

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Referenced Verses

Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Jas 1:10 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
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)}.

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