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You loveאָהַבְתָּallכָלwordsדִּבְרֵיthat devour,בָלַעyou tongueלְשׁוֹןof deceit!מִרְמָה
Psalms 52:4
Study it in the app“You love all words that devour, you tongue of deceit!”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 52:4, word by word
- You loveאָהַבְתָּahavta
love
To care for someone from the heart and seek their good.
Where else “ahavta” appears- wordsדִּבְרֵיdivre
word
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “divre” appears- that devourבָלַעvala
devour
Words that ruin others.
Where else “vala” appears- you tongueלְשׁוֹןleshon
tongue
The organ in the mouth used to taste and speak; hence, what one says.
Where else “leshon” appears- of deceitמִרְמָהmirma
deceit
Deceit, fraud, treachery.
Where else “mirma” appears
The context
3You love evil more than good, lies more than speaking righteousness. Selah.
4 · This verse (above)
5El also will tear you down forever; he will seize you and tear you away from your tent, and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah.