Psalm 69:8
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother’s children."
Word-by-Word Analysis
הָיָה
hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
גֵּר
gêr
properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner
אָח
ʼâch
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))
נׇכְרִי
nokrîy
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
אֵם
ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
בֵּן
bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or ...
Key Terms in This Verse
נׇכְרִי nokrîy
strange, in a variety of degrees and applications (foreign, non-relative, adulterous, different, wonderful)
Study H5237 →הָיָה hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Study H1961 →אֵם ʼêm
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like father))
Study H517 →אָח ʼâch
a brother (used in the widest sense of literal relationship and metaphorical affinity or resemblance (like father))
Study H251 →בֵּן bên
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Study H1121 →Cross References
I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.
He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
For neither did his brethren believe in him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab’s anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why camest thou down hither? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in th...
But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.
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