Psalm 129:6
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁאַר
shâʼar
properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
גָּג
gâg
a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar
יָבֵשׁ
yâbêsh
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
קַדְמָה
qadmâh
priority (in time); also used adverbially (before)
צָמַח
tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָבֵשׁ yâbêsh
to be ashamed, confused or disappointed; also (as failing) to dry up (as water) or wither (as herbage)
Study H3001 →צָמַח tsâmach
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Study H6779 →Cross References
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted befor...
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
And when the sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root, they withered away.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted befo...
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