Psalms 22:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

כַּמַּ֥יִם נִשְׁפַּכְתִּי֮ וְהִתְפָּֽרְד֗וּ כָּֽל־עַצְמ֫וֹתָ֥י הָיָ֣ה לִ֭בִּי כַּדּוֹנָ֑ג נָ֝מֵ֗ס בְּת֣וֹךְ מֵעָֽי׃

Transliteration

Like-the-mayim nišpaktî and-hitpārədû all-ʿaṣmôtāy hāyâ libbî like-dônāg nāmēs in-midst-of mēʿāy

Grammar Details

• *mayim*: noun, masculine plural - 'waters'
• *nišpaktî*: verb, niphal perfect, 1st person singular - 'I am poured out'
• *hitpārədû*: verb, hithpael perfect, 3rd person common plural - 'they separate themselves'
• *ʿaṣmôtāy*: noun, feminine plural with 1st person singular suffix - 'my bones'
• *hāyâ*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - 'it is/has become'
• *libbî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - 'my heart'
• *dônāg*: noun, masculine singular - 'wax'
• *nāmēs*: verb, niphal participle, masculine singular - 'melting'
• *mēʿāy*: noun, masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - 'my inward parts'

Word Meanings

• *nišpaktî*: I am poured out/spilled/emptied
• *hitpārədû*: they separate themselves/are disjointed/divided
• *libbî*: my heart/mind/inner self
• *nāmēs*: melting/dissolving
• *mēʿāy*: my inward parts/entrails/bowels

Referenced Verses

• John 19:28 : 28 After this, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, saith, I thirst.
• Ps 104:29 : 29 Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
• Prov 17:22 : 22 A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
• Isa 53:12 : 12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• Ps 69:21 : 21 They gave{H8799)} me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink{H8686)}.
• Job 29:10 : 10 The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
• Job 34:15 : 15 All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
• Ps 30:9 : 9 What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
• Ps 32:3-4 : 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. 4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah.
• Ps 38:10 : 10 My heart panteth, my strength faileth{H8804)} me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
• Ps 69:3 : 3 I am weary{H8804)} of my crying{H8800)}: my throat is dried{H8738)}: mine eyes fail{H8804)} while I wait{H8764)} for my God.
• Gen 3:19 : 19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
• Gen 18:27 : 27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord, which am but dust and ashes:
• Job 7:21 : 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
• Job 10:9 : 9 Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
• 1 Cor 15:3 : 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;
• Lam 4:4 : 4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them.
• Dan 12:2 : 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
• Matt 27:50 : 50 {G1161} Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost.