Psalms 90:10

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off{H8804)}, and we fly away{H8799)}.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְמֵֽי־שְׁנוֹתֵ֨ינוּ בָהֶ֥ם שִׁבְעִ֪ים שָׁנָ֡ה וְאִ֤ם בִּגְבוּרֹ֨ת ׀ שְׁמ֘וֹנִ֤ים שָׁנָ֗ה וְ֭רָהְבָּם עָמָ֣ל וָאָ֑וֶן כִּי־גָ֥ז חִ֝֗ישׁ וַנָּעֻֽפָה׃

Transliteration

The yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû in them šiḇʿîm šānâ, and if by giḇûrōṯ šĕmônîm šānâ, yet their rohbām is ʿāmāl and ʾāwen; for it gāz ḥîš and we nāʿup̄â.

Grammar Details

*yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû*: masculine plural construct + feminine plural + 1st plural suffix - days of our years
*bāhem*: preposition + 3rd masculine plural suffix - in them
*šiḇʿîm*: cardinal number - seventy
*šānâ*: feminine singular - year
*wĕʾim*: conjunction + conditional particle - and if
*biḡḇûrōṯ*: preposition + feminine plural - by strength/might
*šĕmônîm*: cardinal number - eighty
*wĕrohbām*: conjunction + masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their pride/strength
*ʿāmāl*: masculine singular - trouble/labor
*wāʾāwen*: conjunction + masculine singular - and iniquity/sorrow
*kî-gāz*: conjunction + qal perfect, 3rd masculine singular - for it is cut off
*ḥîš*: adverb - quickly/speedily
*wannāʿup̄â*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 1st plural - and we fly away

Word Meanings

*yĕmê-šĕnôṯênû*: days of our years/span of our life
*giḇûrōṯ*: strength/might/power
*rohbām*: their pride/their strength/their boast
*ʿāmāl*: trouble/labor/toil/misery
*ʾāwen*: iniquity/sorrow/wickedness/trouble
*gāz*: is cut off/passes quickly/is over
*ḥîš*: quickly/speedily/soon
*nāʿup̄â*: we fly away/we depart/we vanish

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

2 Sam 19:35 : 35 I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
Ps 78:39 : 39 For he remembered{H8799)} that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away{H8802)}, and cometh not again{H8799)}.
1 Kgs 1:1 : 1 Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
Job 14:10 : 10 But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?
Deut 34:7 : 7 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 24:24 : 24 They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.
Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Eccl 12:2-7 : 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low; 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
Isa 38:12 : 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.
Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
Job 20:8 : 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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