Psalm 39:11
Old Testament • 15 words with Strong's data
"When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah."
Word-by-Word Analysis
תּוֹכֵחָה
tôwkêchâh
chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
μέλω
mélō
to be of interest to, i.e. to concern (only third person singular present indicative used impersonally, it matters)
יָסַר
yâçar
to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
כָּלָה
kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
הֶבֶל
hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Key Terms in This Verse
תּוֹכֵחָה tôwkêchâh
chastisement; figuratively (by words) correction, refutation, proof (even in defence)
Study H8433 →יָסַר yâçar
to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct
Study H3256 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →μέλω mélō
to be of interest to, i.e. to concern (only third person singular present indicative used impersonally, it matters)
Study G3199 →כָּלָה kâlâh
to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitived (to complete, prepare, consume)
Study H3615 →הֶבֶל hebel
emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
Study H1892 →Cross References
And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is moth eaten.
As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.
Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?
But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man’s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.
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