Like waterכַּמַּיִםI have been poured out,נִשְׁפַּכְתִּיandוְallכָּלmy bonesעַצְמוֹתָיhave come apart;הִתְפָּרְדוּmy heartלִבִּיhas becomeהָיָהlike wax,כַּדּוֹנָגit has meltedנָמֵסwithinבְּתוֹךְmy inward parts.מֵעָי
Psalms 22:14
Study it in the app“Like water I have been poured out, and all my bones have come apart; my heart has become like wax, it has melted within my inward parts.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 22:14, word by word
- Like waterמַּיִםmayim
water
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appears- I have been poured outנִשְׁפַּכְתִּיnishpachti
spill
To empty out water or blood; "spill blood" is to kill.
Where else “nishpachti” appears- my bonesעַצְמוֹתָatsmota
bone
Each hard piece of the skeleton; also the body itself, of the dead or the living.
Where else “atsmota” appears- have come apartהִתְפָּרְדוּhitpardu
separate
To go one's own way, like Abram and Lot.
Where else “hitpardu” appears- my heartלִבִּlibi
heart
The deepest part of a person: where they think, feel and decide.
Where else “libi” appears- has becomeהָיָהhaya
become
To turn into something new, or fall upon someone.
Where else “haya” appears- like waxדּוֹנָגdonag
wax
Wax: what melts in the heat.
Where else “donag” appears- it has meltedנָמֵסnames
lose heart
To lose courage and strength from fear, as if the heart melted.
Where else “names” appears- withinתוֹךְtoch
inside
The inside of a place or an enclosed space.
Where else “toch” appears- my inward partsמֵעָmea
compassion
What is felt inside: pain, anguish or compassion felt in the bowels.
Where else “mea” appears
The context
13They have opened their mouth against me, a lion that tears and roars.
14 · This verse (above)
15My strength has dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my palate; and in the dust of death you lay me.