Psalms 12:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; Our lips are our own: Who is lord over us?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יַכְרֵ֣ת יְ֭הוָה כָּל־שִׂפְתֵ֣י חֲלָק֑וֹת לָ֝שׁ֗וֹן מְדַבֶּ֥רֶת גְּדֹלֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

yaḵrēṯ YHWH all śip̄ṯê ḥălāqôṯ lāšôn məḏabbereṯ gəḏōlôṯ

Grammar Details

*yaḵrēṯ*: hiphil imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will cut off
*YHWH*: proper name, subject - LORD
*śip̄ṯê*: feminine plural construct - lips of
*ḥălāqôṯ*: feminine plural noun - smoothness/flattery
*lāšôn*: feminine singular noun - tongue
*məḏabbereṯ*: piel participle, feminine singular - speaking
*gəḏōlôṯ*: feminine plural adjective - great things/boastful things

Word Meanings

*yaḵrēṯ*: cut off/destroy/eliminate
*śip̄ṯê ḥălāqôṯ*: flattering lips/smooth-talking lips/deceitful speech
*lāšôn məḏabbereṯ gəḏōlôṯ*: tongue speaking great things/boastful tongue/arrogant speech

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Jas 3:5-6 : 5 None So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members {G3779} is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
Gen 3:5 : 5 for God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as God, knowing good and evil.
Exod 5:2 : 2 And Pharaoh said, Who is Jehovah, that I should hearken unto his voice to let Israel go? I know not Jehovah, and moreover I will not let Israel go.
Job 21:14-15 : 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Jer 2:31 : 31 O generation, see ye the word of Jehovah. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? or a land of thick darkness? wherefore say my people, We are broken loose; we will come no more unto thee?
Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Dan 3:15 : 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made, [well]: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he that opposeth and exalteth himself against all that is called God or that is worshipped; so that he {G5613} {G2316} sitteth in the temple of God, setting himself forth as God.

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