Psalm 38:5
Old Testament • 5 words with Strong's data
"My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בָּאַשׁ
bâʼash
to smell bad; figuratively, to be offensive morally
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
Key Terms in This Verse
שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
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