Psalm 38:2
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חֵץ
chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
עֵץ
ʻêts
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
βιάζω
biázō
to force, i.e. (reflexively) to crowd oneself (into), or (passively) to be seized
מְאֹד
mᵉʼôd
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or ...
Key Terms in This Verse
βιάζω biázō
to force, i.e. (reflexively) to crowd oneself (into), or (passively) to be seized
Study G971 →חֵץ chêts
properly, a piercer, i.e. an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of God) thunderbolt; the shaft of aspear
Study H2671 →מְאֹד mᵉʼôd
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
Study H3966 →Cross References
For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.
For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
But the hand of the LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD is gone out against me.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
And see, if it goeth up by the way of his own coast to Bethshemesh, then he hath done us this great evil: but if not, then we shall know that it is not his hand that smote us: it was a chance that hap...
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for th...
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