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Psalms 106:23 — King James Version← Study notes

Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.


Psalms 106:23Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 106:2311 words
HebrewMeaning
וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶרwayōʾmer
and he saidconjH559
appoint · avouch · bid · boast self ···
לְֽ/הַשְׁמִ֫ידָ֥/םləhašəmiydām
to destroy thempronH8045
bring to nought · overthrow · perish · pluck down ···
לוּלֵ֡יlwlēy
if notconjH3884
had not · if · unless · were it not that
מֹ֘שֶׁ֤הmōšeh
MosesnounH4872
בְחִיר֗/וֹbəḥiyrwō
chosen one hisadjH972
chosen one · elect
עָמַ֣דʿāmad
he had stoodverbH5975
appoint · arise · cease · confirm ···
בַּ/פֶּ֣רֶץbapereṣ
in the breachpronH6556
breaking forth · forth · gap
לְ/פָנָ֑י/וləpānāyw
before himpronH6440
accept · against · anger · as ···
לְ/הָשִׁ֥יבləhāšiyb
to turn backpronH7725
build · circumcise · dig · do anything ···
חֲ֝מָת֗/וֹḥămātwō
anger hisnounH2534
bottles · hot displeasure · furious(-ly · -ry) ···
מֵֽ/הַשְׁחִֽיתmēhašəḥiyt
from destroyingpronH7843
cast off · corrupt(-er · thing) · destroy(-er ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 106:23

1. This Psalm also has the title Allelujah prefixed to it: and this twice. But some say, that one Allelujah belongs to the end of the former Psalm, the other to the beginning of this. And they assert, that all the Psalms bearing this title have Allelujah at the end, but not all at the beginning; so that they will not allow any Psalm which has not Allelujah at the end, to have it at the beginning; supposing that what seems to belong to the commencement, really belongs to the…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 106 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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