Psalm 124:3

Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data

"Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:"

Word-by-Word Analysis

Then they had

בֶּלַע

belaʻ

H1105

a gulp; figuratively, destruction

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us up

מִחְיָה

michyâh

H4241

preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick

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when their

אַף

ʼaph

H639

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

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was

חָרָה

chârâh

H2734

to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy

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קִרְאָה

qirʼâh

H7125

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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us

Key Terms in This Verse

quick H4241

מִחְיָה michyâh

preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick

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swallowed H1105

בֶּלַע belaʻ

a gulp; figuratively, destruction

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kindled H2734

חָרָה chârâh

to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy

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wrath H639

אַף ʼaph

properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire

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against H7125

קִרְאָה qirʼâh

an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)

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Cross References

Acts 9:2 cross-reference

And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Psalm 35:25 cross-reference

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

Daniel 3:19 cross-reference

Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven time...

Psalm 27:2 cross-reference

When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Matthew 2:16 cross-reference

Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and...

Psalm 57:3 cross-reference

He shall send from heaven, and save me from the reproach of him that would swallow me up. Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth.

Psalm 76:10 cross-reference

Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

Psalm 83:4 cross-reference

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Psalm 74:8 cross-reference

They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.

Jeremiah 51:34 cross-reference

Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cas...

Esther 3:6 cross-reference

And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus,...

Proverbs 1:12 cross-reference

Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:

Jonah 1:17 cross-reference

Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

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