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Asכְּמוֹone who plowsפֹלֵחַand breaks openוּבֹקֵעַthe earth,בָּאָרֶץour bonesעֲצָמֵינוּhave been scatteredנִפְזְרוּat the mouthלְפִיof Sheol.שְׁאוֹל
Psalms 141:7
Study it in the app“As one who plows and breaks open the earth, our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 141:7, word by word
- one who plowsפֹלֵחַfoleach
plow
To plow, to open furrows in the ground.
Where else “foleach” appears- and breaks openבֹקֵעַvokea
split
To cleave something in two, like wood or the sea.
Where else “vokea” appears- the earthאָרֶץarets
ground
What is underfoot: bowing down to touch it.
Where else “arets” appears- our bonesעֲצָמֵיatsame
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsame” appears- have been scatteredנִפְזְרוּnifzru
scatter
To scatter, to disperse.
Where else “nifzru” appears- at the mouthפִיfi
mouth
The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
Where else “fi” appears- of Sheolשְׁאוֹלsheol
Sheol
Sheol: in the Old Testament, the place of the dead, the grave, where all go down at death.
Where else “sheol” appears
The context
6They have been thrown down by the sides of the rock, their judges, and they will hear my sayings, for they are pleasant.
7 · This verse (above)
8For to you, YHWH Adonai, are my eyes; in you I take refuge; do not pour out my soul.