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The wordsדִּבְרֵיof his mouthפִיוare wickednessאָוֶןand deceit;וּמִרְמָהhe has ceasedחָדַלto understand,לְהַשְׂכִּילto do good.לְהֵיטִיב
Psalms 36:3
Study it in the app“The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; he has ceased to understand, to do good.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 36:3, word by word
- The wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- of his mouthפִיfi
mouth
The part of the face with which one speaks, eats and kisses.
Where else “fi” appears- are wickednessאָוֶןaven
wickedness
The evil one does.
Where else “aven” appears- and deceitמִרְמָהmirma
deceit
Deceit, fraud, treachery.
Where else “mirma” appears- he has ceasedחָדַלchadal
cease, stop
Stop doing something, cease; leave off.
Where else “chadal” appears- to understandהַשְׂכִּילhaskil
act wisely
To grasp what matters and act wisely.
Where else “haskil” appears- to do goodהֵיטִיבhetiv
do good
To act rightly, or mend one's ways.
Where else “hetiv” appears
The context
2For he flatters himself in his own eyes to find his iniquity, to hate it.
3 · This verse (above)
4Wickedness he plots on his bed; he takes his stand on a way not good; evil he does not reject.