Psalm 75:8
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יָד
yâd
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
כּוֹס
kôwç
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its e...
יַיִן
yayin
wine (as fermented); by implication, intoxication
מָלֵא
mâlêʼ
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
מַמְסָךְ
mamçâk
mixture, i.e. (specifically) wine mixed (with water or spices)
שָׁפַךְ
shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc....
שֶׁמֶר
shemer
something preserved, i.e. the settlings (plural only) of wine
חָלַל
châlal
properly, to bore, i.e. (by implication) to wound, to dissolve; figuratively, to profane (a person, place or thing), to break (one's word), to begin (...
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
מָלַק
mâlaq
to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of afowl (without separating it)
שָׁתָה
shâthâh
to imbibe (literally or figuratively)
Key Terms in This Verse
מַמְסָךְ mamçâk
mixture, i.e. (specifically) wine mixed (with water or spices)
Study H4469 →שֶׁמֶר shemer
something preserved, i.e. the settlings (plural only) of wine
Study H8105 →מָלַק mâlaq
to crack a joint; by implication, to wring the neck of afowl (without separating it)
Study H4454 →שָׁפַךְ shâphak
to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e. to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc.); intensively, to sprawl out
Study H8210 →כּוֹס kôwç
a cup (as a container), often figuratively, a lot (as if a potion); also some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
Study H3563 →מָלֵא mâlêʼ
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
Study H4392 →Cross References
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wra...
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink:
Then took I the cup at the LORD’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more d...
Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
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