Psalm 144:6
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
פּוּץ
pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
יָרָה
yârâh
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by ai...
חֵץ
chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָרָה yârâh
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
Study H3384 →פּוּץ pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Study H6327 →חֵץ chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
Study H2671 →שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →Cross References
I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
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