Psalms 74:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou didst divide{H8782)} the sea by thy strength: thou brakest{H8765)} the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אַתָּ֤ה פוֹרַ֣רְתָּ בְעָזְּךָ֣ יָ֑ם שִׁבַּ֖רְתָּ רָאשֵׁ֥י תַ֝נִּינִ֗ים עַל־הַמָּֽיִם׃

Transliteration

Attah porarta ve'azzcha yam, you shibbarta rashei tanninim upon ha-mayim.

Grammar Details

*Attah*: 2nd person masculine singular pronoun - 'you'
*porarta*: polel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you divided/split'
*ve'azzcha*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - 'with your strength'
*yam*: masculine singular noun - 'sea'
*shibbarta*: piel perfect 2nd person masculine singular - 'you shattered'
*rashei*: masculine plural construct - 'heads of'
*tanninim*: masculine plural noun - 'sea monsters/dragons'
*al-hammayim*: preposition + definite article + masculine plural noun - 'upon the waters'

Word Meanings

*porarta*: divided/split/broke up
*yam*: sea/ocean/large body of water
*shibbarta*: shattered/broke/crushed
*tanninim*: sea monsters/dragons/great reptiles

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Referenced Verses

Exod 14:21 : 21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Ps 78:13 : 13 He divided{H8804)} the sea, and caused them to pass through{H8686)}; and he made the waters to stand{H8686)} as an heap.
Ezek 29:3 : 3 Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.
Ezek 32:2 : 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.
Ps 106:8-9 : 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known. 9 He rebuked the Red sea also, and it was dried up: so he led them through the depths, as through the wilderness.
Ps 136:13-18 : 13 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endureth for ever: 14 And made Israel to pass through the midst of it: for his mercy endureth for ever: 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea: for his mercy endureth for ever. 16 To him which led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endureth for ever. 17 To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever: 18 And slew famous kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:
Isa 11:15-16 : 15 And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. 16 And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
Isa 51:9-9 : 9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? 10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Exod 14:28 : 28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.
Neh 9:11 : 11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
Ps 66:6 : 6 He turned{H8804)} the sea into dry land: they went{H8799)} through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice{H8799)} in him.

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