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
בֶּלַע
belaʻ
a gulp; figuratively, destruction
מִחְיָה
michyâh
preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
חָרָה
chârâh
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Key Terms in This Verse
מִחְיָה michyâh
preservation of life; hence, sustenance; also the live flesh, i.e. the quick
Study H4241 →חָרָה chârâh
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
Study H2734 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
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.
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
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...
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
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...
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.
Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
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.
They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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...
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,...
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
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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