Psalm 79:7
Old Testament • 6 words with Strong's data
"For they have devoured Jacob, and laid waste his dwelling place."
Word-by-Word Analysis
יַעֲקֹב
Yaʻăqôb
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
חָרַב
chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
יָשַׁב
yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
מָקוֹם
mâqôwm
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
Key Terms in This Verse
יָשַׁב yâshab
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
Study H3427 →חָרַב chârab
to parch (through drought) i.e. (by analogy,) to desolate, destroy, kill
Study H2717 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →מָקוֹם mâqôwm
properly, a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
Study H4725 →Cross References
And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.
All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because they have sinned against the LORD, the habitation of justice, even the LORD, the hope of their fathers.
To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it.
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
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