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Notלֹאsoכֵןthe wicked,הָרְשָׁעִיםbutכִּי אִםthey are like the chaffכַּמֹּץthatאֲשֶׁרthe windרוּחַdrives away.תִּדְּפֶנּוּ
Psalms 1:4
Study it in the app“Not so the wicked, but they are like the chaff that the wind drives away.”
Two ways: that of the righteous and that of the wickedObedience
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 1:4, word by word
- the wickedרְשָׁעִיםreshaim
wicked
One who does evil, the opposite of the righteous.
Where else “reshaim” appears- they are like the chaffמֹּץmots
chaff
Chaff: the husk of grain, which the wind carries away at winnowing.
Where else “mots” appears- the windרוּחַruach
wind
Moving air; also the four quarters of the horizon.
Where else “ruach” appears- drives awayתִּדְּפֶtidfe
driven (by the wind)
Be driven by the wind, blown away.
Where else “tidfe” appears
Translation note
“Chaff”: the husk of the grain, which the wind carries off when the harvest is winnowed.
The context
3He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, that gives its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and all that he does prospers.
4 · This verse (above)
5Therefore the wicked will not rise in the judgment, nor sinners in the community of the righteous.