Psalms 90:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou carriest them away as with a flood{H8804)}; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up{H8799)}.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

זְ֭רַמְתָּם שֵׁנָ֣ה יִהְי֑וּ בַּ֝בֹּ֗קֶר כֶּחָצִ֥יר יַחֲלֹֽף׃

Transliteration

You zĕramtām šēnâ they yihyû; in boqer like ḥāṣîr yaḥălōp̄.

Grammar Details

*zĕramtām*: qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix - you flood/sweep/carry away them
*šēnâ*: feminine singular - sleep
*yihyû*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine plural - they are/become
*babboqer*: preposition + definite article + masculine singular - in the morning
*keḥāṣîr*: preposition + masculine singular - like grass
*yaḥălōp̄*: qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - sprouts up/passes away/changes

Word Meanings

*zĕramtām*: you flood them away/you sweep them away/you end them
*šēnâ*: sleep/slumber/unconsciousness
*yihyû*: they become/they are/they exist
*boqer*: morning/daybreak
*ḥāṣîr*: grass/hay/vegetation
*yaḥălōp̄*: sprouts up/passes away/changes/grows anew/fades

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Isa 40:6 : 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
Job 22:16 : 16 Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood:
Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when one awaketh{H8687)}; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise{H8799)} their image.
Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Isa 8:7-8 : 7 Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: 8 And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.
Isa 29:7-8 : 7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision. 8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night. 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Job 9:26 : 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
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.
Jer 46:7-8 : 7 Who is this that cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers? 8 Egypt riseth up like a flood, and his waters are moved like the rivers; and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth; I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.
Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

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Job 14:19
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