Psalms 46:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, Though the mountains tremble with the swelling thereof. {H5542}

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַל־כֵּ֣ן לֹא־נִ֭ירָא בְּהָמִ֣יר אָ֑רֶץ וּבְמ֥וֹט הָ֝רִ֗ים בְּלֵ֣ב יַמִּֽים׃

Transliteration

Upon-kēn not-nîrāʾ in-hāmîr ʾāreṣ and-in-môṭ hārîm in-lēb yammîm

Grammar Details

• *ʿal-kēn*: conjunction - therefore/because of this
• *lōʾ-nîrāʾ*: negative + qal imperfect 1st person plural - we will not fear
• *bə-hāmîr*: preposition + hiphil infinitive construct - in the changing/removing of
• *ʾāreṣ*: feminine singular noun - earth/land
• *û-bə-môṭ*: conjunction + preposition + qal infinitive construct - and in the tottering/moving of
• *hārîm*: masculine plural noun - mountains
• *bə-lēb*: preposition + masculine singular construct - in the heart/midst of
• *yammîm*: masculine plural noun - seas

Word Meanings

• *hāmîr*: changing/removing/converting
• *môṭ*: tottering/slipping/shaking
• *lēb*: heart/midst/core
• *yammîm*: seas/oceans/waters

Referenced Verses

• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O Jehovah, The floods have lifted up their voice; The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.
• Jer 5:22 : 22 Fear ye not me? saith Jehovah: will ye not tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it? and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it.
• Isa 17:12-13 : 12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters! 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
• Jer 4:24 : 24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved to and fro.
• Ps 114:4-7 : 4 The mountains skipped like rams, The little hills like lambs. 5 What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back? 6 Ye mountains, that ye skip like rams; Ye little hills, like lambs? 7 Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord, At the presence of the God of Jacob,
• Isa 5:3 : 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
• Judg 5:4-5 : 4 Jehovah, when thou wentest forth out of Seir, When thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, The earth trembled, the heavens also dropped, Yea, the clouds dropped water. 5 The mountains quaked at the presence of Jehovah, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Jehovah, the God of Israel.
• 1 Kgs 19:11 : 11 And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before Jehovah. And, behold, Jehovah passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before Jehovah; but Jehovah was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but Jehovah was not in the earthquake:
• Job 9:5-6 : 5 [ Him] that removeth the mountains, and they know it not, When he overturneth them in his anger; 6 That shaketh the earth out of its place, And the pillars thereof tremble;
• Job 38:11 : 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further; And here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
• Ps 18:4 : 4 The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
• Mic 1:4 : 4 And the mountains shall be melted under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, as waters that are poured down a steep place.
• Nah 1:5 : 5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
• Matt 7:25 : 25 and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock.
• Rev 16:20 : 20 And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found.
• Rev 17:15 : 15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.