Psalms 97:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אֵ֭שׁ לְפָנָ֣יו תֵּלֵ֑ךְ וּתְלַהֵ֖ט סָבִ֣יב צָרָֽיו

Transliteration

ʾēš lə-p̄ānāyw tēlēḵ û-təlahēṭ sāḇîḇ ṣārāyw

Grammar Details

*ʾēš*: noun, feminine singular - fire
*lə-p̄ānāyw*: preposition lamed + noun, plural construct + suffix, 3rd person masculine singular - before him
*tēlēḵ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - goes/will go
*û-təlahēṭ*: conjunction waw + piel imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - and consumes/burns up
*sāḇîḇ*: adverb - around/surrounding
*ṣārāyw*: noun, masculine plural + suffix, 3rd person masculine singular - his adversaries

Word Meanings

*lə-p̄ānāyw*: before him/ahead of him/in front of him
*tēlēḵ*: goes/walks/proceeds
*təlahēṭ*: burns up/consumes/sets ablaze
*ṣārāyw*: his adversaries/enemies/foes

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:8 : 8 There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Ps 50:3 : 3 Our God shall come{H8799)}, and shall not keep silence{H8799)}: a fire shall devour{H8799)} before him, and it shall be very tempestuous{H8738)} round about him.
Dan 7:10 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.
Hab 3:5 : 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.
Mal 4:1 : 1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Heb 12:29 : 29 For our God is a consuming fire.
2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
Rev 11:5 : 5 And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
Rev 20:15 : 15 And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.
2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
Nah 1:5-6 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. 6 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
Ps 21:8-9 : 8 Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee. 9 Thou 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.
Deut 4:11 : 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness.
Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
Deut 5:4 : 4 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,
Deut 5:23-24 : 23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness,(for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

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Ps 58:9
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