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Psalm 58

Psa. 58:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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As a snail
shabluwl (Hebrew #7642)
a snail (as if floating in its own slime)
KJV usage: snail.
Pronounce: shab-lool'
Origin: from the same as 7640
which melteth
temec (Hebrew #8557)
liquefaction, i.e. disappearance
KJV usage: melt.
Pronounce: teh'-mes
Origin: from 4529
, let every one of them pass away
halak (Hebrew #1980)
a primitive root; to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
KJV usage: (all) along, apace, behave (self), come, (on) continually, be conversant, depart, + be eased, enter, exercise (self), + follow, forth, forward, get, go (about, abroad, along, away, forward, on, out, up and down), + greater, grow, be wont to haunt, lead, march, X more and more, move (self), needs, on, pass (away), be at the point, quite, run (along), + send, speedily, spread, still, surely, + tale-bearer, + travel(-ler), walk (abroad, on, to and fro, up and down, to places), wander, wax, (way-)faring man, X be weak, whirl.
Pronounce: haw-lak'
Origin: akin to 3212
: like the untimely birth
nephel (Hebrew #5309)
from 5307; something fallen, i.e. an abortion
KJV usage: untimely birth.
Pronounce: neh'-fel
Origin: or nephel {nay'-fel}
of a woman
'ishshah (Hebrew #802)
irregular plural, nashiym {naw-sheem'}; a woman (used in the same wide sense as 582)
KJV usage: (adulter)ess, each, every, female, X many, + none, one, + together, wife, woman. Often unexpressed in English.
Pronounce: ish-shaw'
Origin: feminine of 376 or 582
, that they may not see
chazah (Hebrew #2372)
to gaze at; mentally, to perceive, contemplate (with pleasure); specifically, to have a vision of
KJV usage: behold, look, prophesy, provide, see.
Pronounce: khaw-zaw'
Origin: a primitive root
the sun
shemesh (Hebrew #8121)
the sun; by implication, the east; figuratively, a ray, i.e. (arch.) a notched battlement
KJV usage: + east side(-ward), sun ((rising)), + west(-ward), window. See also 1053.
Pronounce: sheh'-mesh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be brilliant
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Snail,
Sun,
Woman

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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a snail.--{Shabbelool,} in Chaldee {tivlala,} the snail, is probably so called from the Arabic {balla,} to wet, moisten, because of the glutinous slime emitted from its body, by which it appears to waste itself away in its own motion; and in the same manner the wicked prove their own destruction.pass.
Psa. 37:35‑36• 35I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
 36Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. (Psa. 37:35‑36)
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Matt. 24:35• 35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. (Matt. 24:35)
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James 1:10• 10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. (James 1:10)
untimely.
Job 3:16• 16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light. (Job 3:16)
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Eccl. 6:3• 3If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. (Eccl. 6:3)
• {v.8-9} Let them be as a snail that leaves only a trail of slime, or like a untimely birth, that has no future; or like burning thorns that have scarcely warmed the pot before they are “whirled away” (JND). (“Psalms 58” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.