Psalm 68:30
Old Testament • 17 words with Strong's data
"Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָכַח
yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
English grammatical function word ('spearmen'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalen...
פַּר
par
a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)
עֵגֶל
ʻêgel
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
עַד
ʻad
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
אֶחָד
ʼechâd
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
עָנָה
ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
נֶפֶשׁ
nephesh
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or menta...
כֶּסֶף
keçeph
silver (from its pale color); by implication, money
פּוּץ
pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
עַם
ʻam
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
חָפֵץ
châphêts
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
מִלְחָמָה
milchâmâh
a battle (i.e. the engagement); generally, war (i.e. warfare)
Key Terms in This Verse
English grammatical function word ('spearmen'). These words (articles, prepositions, conjunctions, pronouns, auxiliary verbs) have no direct equivalent in the original Hebrew or Greek text; they are r...
Study GRAM →פַּר par
a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)
Study H6499 →עָנָה ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Study H6031 →עֵגֶל ʻêgel
a (male) calf (as frisking round), especially one nearly grown (i.e. a steer)
Study H5695 →פּוּץ pûwts
to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse)
Study H6327 →יָכַח yâkach
to be right (i.e. correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
Study H3198 →חָפֵץ châphêts
properly, to incline to; by implication (literally but rarely) to bend; figuratively, to be pleased with, desire
Study H2654 →עַד ʻad
{as far (or long, or much) as, whether of space (even unto) or time (during, while, until) or degree (equally with)}
Study H5705 →Cross References
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have mad...
For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit themselves unto me.
And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;
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