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Likeכְּמוֹa snailשַׁבְּלוּלthat melts awayתֶּמֶסas it goes,יַהֲלֹךְlike the stillbornנֵפֶלof a woman,אֵשֶׁתlet them notבַּלseeחָזוּthe sun.שָׁמֶשׁ
Psalms 58:8
Study it in the app“Like a snail that melts away as it goes, like the stillborn of a woman, let them not see the sun.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 58:8, word by word
- a snailשַׁבְּלוּלshablul
snail, slug
A snail or slug. It appears only once in the Bible.
Where else “shablul” appears- that melts awayתֶּמֶסtemes
melting
What dissolves or melts away until it disappears. It appears only once.
Where else “temes” appears- as it goesיַהֲלֹךְyahaloch
go
To move on foot from place to place; to set out.
Where else “yahaloch” appears- like the stillbornנֵפֶלnefel
stillborn child
A stillborn child: a child born before its time and without life.
Where else “nefel” appears- of a womanאֵשֶׁתeshet
woman
An adult female person: single, married or widowed.
Where else “eshet” appears- let them notבַּלbal
not
Not: a negative proper to Hebrew poetry; it denies strongly ("it will not be moved").
Where else “bal” appears- seeחָזוּchazu
gaze
To fix one's gaze on something or someone, behold it.
Where else “chazu” appears- the sunשָׁמֶשׁshamesh
sun
The star that gives light and heat by day and marks the day and the year; "under the sun" means in this world.
Where else “shamesh” appears
The context
7Let them dissolve like water that flows away; when he draws his arrows, let them be as if blunted.
8 · This verse (above)
9Before your pots feel the bramble, whether green or burning, he will sweep it away in a storm.