Psalm 79:1

Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data

"O GOD, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps."

Word-by-Word Analysis

O

אֱלֹהִים

ʼĕlôhîym

H430

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...

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the

גּוֹי

gôwy

H1471

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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are

בּוֹא

bôwʼ

H935

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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into thine

נַחֲלָה

nachălâh

H5159

properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion

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thy

קֹדֶשׁ

qôdesh

H6944

a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity

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הֵיכָל

hêykâl

H1964

a large public building, such as a palace or temple

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have they

טָמֵא

ṭâmêʼ

H2930

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

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they have

שׂוּם

sûwm

H7760

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם

Yᵉrûwshâlaim

H3389

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

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on

חֲמֹרָה

chămôrâh

H2565

a heap

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Key Terms in This Verse

heaps H2565

חֲמֹרָה chămôrâh

a heap

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defiled H2930

טָמֵא ṭâmêʼ

to be foul, especially in a ceremial or moral sense (contaminated)

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heathen H1471

גּוֹי gôwy

a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts

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temple H1964

הֵיכָל hêykâl

a large public building, such as a palace or temple

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inheritance H5159

נַחֲלָה nachălâh

properly, something inherited, i.e. (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion

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laid H7760

שׂוּם sûwm

to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)

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holy H6944

קֹדֶשׁ qôdesh

a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity

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Jerusalem H3389

יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם Yᵉrûwshâlaim

Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine

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come H935

בּוֹא bôwʼ

to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)

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GOD H430

אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym

gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...

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Cross References

Micah 3:12 cross-reference

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

2 Chronicles 36:19 cross-reference

And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

Lamentations 1:10 cross-reference

The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congrega...

Jeremiah 26:18 cross-reference

Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shal...

2 Kings 24:13 cross-reference

And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temp...

Psalm 78:71 cross-reference

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Jeremiah 52:13 cross-reference

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

Exodus 15:17 cross-reference

Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, in the Sanctuary, O LORD, which thy hands have establish...

2 Chronicles 36:17 cross-reference

Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that s...

Revelation 11:2 cross-reference

But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

Isaiah 47:6 cross-reference

I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.

Jeremiah 39:8 cross-reference

And the Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 9:7 cross-reference

And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth. And they went forth, and slew in the city.

Luke 21:24 cross-reference

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

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