Psalm 137:3
Old Testament • 13 words with Strong's data
"For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
גָּלָה
gâlâh
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
בָּקַשׁ
bâqash
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
תָּמַם
tâmam
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
בָּקַשׁ
bâqash
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
שִׂמְחָה
simchâh
blithesomeness or glee, (religious or festival)
אָמַר
ʼâmar
to say (used with great latitude)
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
צִיּוֹן
Tsîyôwn
Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem
Key Terms in This Verse
תָּמַם tâmam
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
Study H8552 →בָּקַשׁ bâqash
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Study H1245 →בָּקַשׁ bâqash
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
Study H1245 →גָּלָה gâlâh
to denude (especially in a disgraceful sense); by implication, to exile (captives being usually stripped); figuratively, to reveal
Study H1540 →Cross References
As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
That I may shew forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion: I will rejoice in thy salvation.
Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps.
And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the s...
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shal...
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of line...
Therefore the redeemed of the LORD shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee a...
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