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AlsoגַּםAssyriaאַשּׁוּרhas joinedנִלְוָהthem;עִמָּםthey have beenהָיוּan armזְרוֹעַto the sonsלִבְנֵיof Lot.לוֹטSelah.סֶלָה
Psalms 83:8
Study it in the app“Also Assyria has joined them; they have been an arm to the sons of Lot. Selah.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Psalms 83:8, word by word
- Assyriaאַשּׁוּרashur
Assyria, Asshur
See it on the mapWhere else “ashur” appears- has joinedנִלְוָהnilva
join
To join oneself to someone and be bound to him.
Where else “nilva” appears- they have beenהָיוּhayu
exist
To exist: "let there be light".
Where else “hayu” appears- an armזְרוֹעַzeroa
arm
The limb between shoulder and hand; in an animal, the shoulder.
Where else “zeroa” appears- to the sonsבְנֵיvene
descendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “vene” appears- of Lotלוֹטlot
Lot
Lot, nephew of Abram, son of Haran; he settled in Sodom and was saved from its destruction. Father of Moab and Ammon.
Where else “lot” appears- Selahסֶלָהsela
Selah
Selah: a word found at the end of some stanzas of the psalms. It is probably a direction for the music or a pause; its exact sense is unknown, so it is left in Hebrew.
Where else “sela” appears
Translation note
“The sons of Lot”: Moab and Ammon (Genesis 19:36-38). “They have been an arm”: they have given them their strength, their support.
Places in this verse
Assyria
Today: northern Iraq (with parts of Syria, Turkey, Iran)
An empire of northern Mesopotamia along the Tigris River, in present-day Iraq.
Assyria took the northern kingdom of Israel captive (2 Kgs 17:6). God sent Jonah to preach in Nineveh, its capital (Jonah 3:3).
The context
7Gebal and Ammon and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre;
8 · This verse (above)
9Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kishon,