Psalms 74:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They said{H8804)} in their hearts, Let us destroy{H8799)} them together: they have burned up{H8804)} all the synagogues of God in the land.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָמְר֣וּ בְ֭לִבָּם נִינָ֣ם יָ֑חַד שָׂרְפ֖וּ כָל־מוֹעֲדֵי־אֵ֣ל בָּאָֽרֶץ׃

Transliteration

Amru in their libbam, "Ninam yachad"; sarfu all mo'adei-El in the arets.

Grammar Details

*Amru*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they said'
*belibbam*: preposition + masculine singular noun with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'in their heart'
*Ninam*: qal imperfect 1st person common plural + 3rd person masculine plural suffix - 'let us oppress them'
*yachad*: adverb - 'together/completely'
*sarfu*: qal perfect 3rd person common plural - 'they burned'
*mo'adei-El*: construct phrase - 'meeting places of God'
*ba'arets*: preposition + definite article + feminine singular noun - 'in the land'

Word Meanings

*Ninam*: let us oppress them/destroy them/subdue them
*mo'adei-El*: meeting places of God/assembly places of God/appointed places of God
*sarfu*: they burned/consumed with fire

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 83:4 : 4 They have said{H8804)}, Come{H8798)}, and let us cut them off{H8686)} from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance{H8735)}.
Ps 137:7 : 7 Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
Matt 4:23 : 23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
2 Kgs 2:3 : 3 And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
2 Kgs 2:5 : 5 And the sons of the prophets that were at Jericho came to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he answered, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.
2 Kgs 4:23 : 23 And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Chr 17:9 : 9 And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law of the LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
Esth 3:8-9 : 8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

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Ps 74:6-7
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6But now they break down{H8799)} the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers.
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3They have taken crafty{H8686)} counsel against thy people, and consulted{H8691)} against thy hidden ones{H8803)}.
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12Who said{H8804)}, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession{H8799)}.
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7For they have devoured{H8804)} Jacob, and laid waste{H8689)} his dwelling place.
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65Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
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19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Ps 69:24-25
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24Pour out{H8798)} thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold{H8686)} of them.
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1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come{H8804)} into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled{H8765)}; they have laid{H8804)} Jerusalem on heaps.
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9Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
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2 Kgs 19:18
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18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.
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Lam 2:6
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18For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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16It is burned{H8803)} with fire, it is cut down{H8803)}: they perish{H8799)} at the rebuke of thy countenance.
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18Surely thou didst set{H8799)} them in slippery places: thou castedst them down{H8689)} into destruction.
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18And a fire was kindled in their company; the flame burned up the wicked.
Ps 55:15
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