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Psalm 144

Psa. 144:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Man
'adam (Hebrew #120)
ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
KJV usage: X another, + hypocrite, + common sort, X low, man (mean, of low degree), person.
Pronounce: aw-dawm'
Origin: from 119
e is like
damah (Hebrew #1819)
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
KJV usage: compare, devise, (be) like(-n), mean, think, use similitudes.
Pronounce: daw-maw'
Origin: a primitive root
to vanity
hebel (Hebrew #1892)
from 1891; emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
KJV usage: X altogether, vain, vanity.
Pronounce: heh'bel
Origin: or (rarely in the abs.) habel {hab-ale'}
: his days
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
are as a shadow
tsel (Hebrew #6738)
shade, whether literal or figurative
KJV usage: defence, shade(-ow).
Pronounce: tsale
Origin: from 6751
that passeth away
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Psa. 39:5• 5Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah. (Psa. 39:5)

Cross References

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Man.
Psa. 39:5‑6• 5Behold, thou hast made my days as hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, even the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.
 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:5‑6)
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Psa. 62:9• 9Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity. (Psa. 62:9)
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Psa. 89:47• 47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity? (Psa. 89:47)
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Job 4:19• 19How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed as the moth! (Job 4:19)
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Job 14:1‑3• 1Man, born of woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
 2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
 3Yet dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bringest me into judgment with thee? (Job 14:1‑3)
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Eccl. 1:2,14• 2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.
 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 1:2,14)
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Eccl. 12:8• 8Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity. (Eccl. 12:8)
his days.
Psa. 102:11• 11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass. (Psa. 102:11)
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Psa. 103:15‑16• 15As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth:
 16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof knoweth it no more. (Psa. 103:15‑16)
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Psa. 109:23• 23I am gone like a shadow when it lengtheneth; I am tossed about like the locust; (Psa. 109:23)
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2 Sam. 14:14• 14For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; and God has not taken away his life, but devises means that the banished one be not expelled from him. (2 Sam. 14:14)
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1 Chron. 29:15• 15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no hope of life. (1 Chron. 29:15)
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Job 8:9• 9For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow. (Job 8:9)
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Eccl. 8:13• 13but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days as a shadow, because he feareth not before God. (Eccl. 8:13)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Mana is like to vanityb; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

JND Translation Notes

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Adam.
b
Or "a breath," as Ps. 62.9; 94.11. see Note b, Gen. 4.2. in vers; 8,11 the word is as "falsehood" in Ps. 12.2, where see Note g.