Psalm 14:4
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD."
Word-by-Word Analysis
פָּעַל
pâʻal
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
לֶחֶם
lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
Key Terms in This Verse
פָּעַל pâʻal
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
Study H6466 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →לֶחֶם lechem
food (for man or beast), especially bread, or grain (for making it)
Study H3899 →עַם ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
Study H5971 →Cross References
Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have not called upon thy name.
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation d...
They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, ye that are escaped of the nations: they have no knowledge that set up the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save.
They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.
Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent ...
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, a...
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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