Psalm 109:23
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust."
Word-by-Word Analysis
הָלַךְ
hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
English grammatical function word ('declineth'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivale...
נָדֻד
nâdud
properly, tossed; abstractly, a rolling (on the bed)
אַרְבֶּה
ʼarbeh
a locust (from its rapid increase)
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('declineth'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are ...
Study GRAM →הָלַךְ hâlak
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
Study H1980 →Cross References
And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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.
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
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