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Psalm 37

Psa. 37:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they shall soon
mherah (Hebrew #4120)
properly, a hurry; hence (adverbially) promptly
KJV usage: hastily, quickly, shortly, soon, make (with) speed(-ily), swiftly.
Pronounce: meh-hay-raw'
Origin: feminine of 4118
be cut down
namal (Hebrew #5243)
to become clipped or (specifically) circumcised
KJV usage: (branch to) be cut down (off), circumcise.
Pronounce: naw-mal'
Origin: a primitive root
like the grass
chatsiyr (Hebrew #2682)
grass; also a leek (collectively)
KJV usage: grass, hay, herb, leek.
Pronounce: khaw-tseer'
Origin: perhaps originally the same as 2681, from the greenness of a courtyard
, and wither
nabel (Hebrew #5034)
to wilt; generally, to fall away, fail, faint; figuratively, to be foolish or (morally) wicked; causatively, to despise, disgrace
KJV usage: disgrace, dishounour, lightly esteem, fade (away, - ing), fall (down, -ling, off), do foolishly, come to nought, X surely, make vile, wither.
Pronounce: naw-bale'
Origin: a primitive root
as the green
yereq (Hebrew #3418)
properly, pallor, i.e. hence, the yellowish green of young and sickly vegetation; concretely, verdure, i.e. grass or vegetation
KJV usage: grass, green (thing).
Pronounce: yeh'-rek
Origin: from 3417 (in the sense of vacuity of color)
herb
deshe' (Hebrew #1877)
a sprout; by analogy, grass
KJV usage: (tender) grass, green, (tender)herb.
Pronounce: deh'-sheh
Origin: from 1876
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Cross References

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Psa. 37:35‑36• 35I have seen the wicked [man] strong{HR}And spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
 36And he passeth away and behold he is not;{HR}And I seek him, and he is not found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)
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Psa. 73:17‑20• 17Until I went into the sanctuaries of God (El):{HR}I considered their end.
 18Truly thou settest them in slippery places,{HR}Thou hast caused them to fall into ruins.
 19How are they a desolation in a moment!{HR}They have passed, consumed with terrors.
 20As a dream on awaking, so, O Lord (Adonai),{HR}In arising, wilt thou despise their image. (Psa. 73:17‑20)
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Psa. 90:5‑6• 5Thou sweepest them away— asleep are they;{HR}In the morning as grass changeth;
 6In the morning it flourisheth and changeth;{HR}At the evening it is mown and withereth. (Psa. 90:5‑6)
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Psa. 92:7• 7When wicked [men] spring up as grass{HR}And all the workers of iniquity flourish,{HR}[It is] for them to be destroyed forever. (Psa. 92:7)
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Psa. 129:5‑7• 5Ashamed and turned backward{HR}Be all that hate Zion.
 6Be they as grass of housetops{HR}Which withereth before it is plucked up;
 7Wherewith a mower filleth not his hand{HR}Nor (and) a sheaf-binder his bosom. (Psa. 129:5‑7)
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Job 20:5‑9• 5From near [is] the triumphing of the wicked,{HR}And the joy of the ungodly for a moment.
 6Though his height mount to the heavens,{HR}And his head reach the cloud,
 7Like his dung he perisheth forever;{HR}They that saw him shall say, Where [is] he?
 8Like a dream shall he fly away, and not be found,{HR}And he shall be scared away like a vision of the night.
 9The eye scanned him, [but] not again;{HR}And his place beholdeth him no more. (Job 20:5‑9)
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James 1:10‑11• 10and the rich in his humiliation, because as flower of grass, he will pass away.
 11For the sun arose with its scorching, and withered the grass, and its flower fell away, and the comeliness of its look perished: thus also will the rich one fade in his goings. (James 1:10‑11)
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1 Peter 1:24• 24Because all flesh [is] as grass, and all its glory as a flower of grass. The grass withered and the flower fell away, (1 Peter 1:24)

J. N. Darby Translation

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for they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and fade as the green herb.

W. Kelly Translation

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For like grass they are speedily cut off,{HR}And like the greenness of the tender herb they do fade.