Psalms 91:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִ֭דֶּבֶר בָּאֹ֣פֶל יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב יָשׁ֥וּד צָהֳרָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

From deber in ʾōpel yahălōk, from qeṭeb yāšûd ṣohŏrāyim.

Grammar Details

• *deber*: masculine singular noun - pestilence/plague
• *ʾōpel*: masculine singular noun with preposition - in darkness
• *yahălōk*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it walks/stalks
• *qeṭeb*: masculine singular noun - destruction
• *yāšûd*: Qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - it devastates
• *ṣohŏrāyim*: masculine dual noun - noonday/midday

Word Meanings

• *deber*: pestilence/plague/epidemic
• *ʾōpel*: darkness/gloom/thick darkness
• *yahălōk*: walks/stalks/advances
• *qeṭeb*: destruction/death/plague
• *yāšûd*: devastates/lays waste/destroys
• *ṣohŏrāyim*: noonday/midday/heat of the day

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the destruction that strikes at noonday.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Nor for the pestilence that walketh{H8799)} in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth{H8799)} at noonday.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For the pestilece that crepeth in ye darcknesse, ner for the sicknesse yt destroyeth in the noone daye.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Nor of the pestilence that walketh in the darkenesse: nor of the plague that destroyeth at noone day.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Nor of any pestilence that walketh in the darknesse: nor of any deadly fyt that destroyeth at hygh noone.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [Nor] for the pestilence [that] walketh in darkness; [nor] for the destruction [that] wasteth at noonday.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

• World English Bible (2000)

  nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  the plague that stalks in the darkness, or the disease that ravages at noon.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And it happened that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
• Ps 121:5-6 : 5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is your shade at your right hand. 6 The sun shall not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.
• Matt 24:6-7 : 6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled, for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places.
• Exod 12:29-30 : 29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
• Num 16:48 : 48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
• 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand men died from Dan to Beersheba.
• 1 Cor 10:3-9 : 3 And all ate the same spiritual food; 4 And all drank the same spiritual drink: for they drank from that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. 5 But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 6 Now these things were our examples, so we should not desire evil things, as they also desired. 7 Do not be idolaters, as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. 8 Do not commit sexual immorality, as some of them did, and in one day twenty-three thousand fell. 9 Do not tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by snakes. 10 Do not complain, as some of them also complained, and were destroyed by the destroyer.