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Psalm 74

Psa. 74:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou brakest
ratsats (Hebrew #7533)
to crack in pieces, literally or figuratively
KJV usage: break, bruise, crush, discourage, oppress, struggle together.
Pronounce: raw-tsats'
Origin: a primitive root
the heads
ro'sh (Hebrew #7218)
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
KJV usage: band, beginning, captain, chapiter, chief(-est place, man, things), company, end, X every (man), excellent, first, forefront, ((be-))head, height, (on) high(-est part, (priest)), X lead, X poor, principal, ruler, sum, top.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to shake
of leviathan
livyathan (Hebrew #3882)
a wreathed animal, i.e. a serpent (especially the crocodile or some other large sea- monster); figuratively, the constellation of the dragon; also as a symbol of Bab.
KJV usage: leviathan, mourning.
Pronounce: liv-yaw-thawn'
Origin: from 3867
in pieces, and gavest
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
him to be meat
ma'akal (Hebrew #3978)
an eatable (includ. provender, flesh and fruit)
KJV usage: food, fruit, ((bake-)) meat(-s), victual.
Pronounce: mah-ak-awl'
Origin: from 398
h to the people
`am (Hebrew #5971)
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
KJV usage: folk, men, nation, people.
Pronounce: am
Origin: from 6004
inhabiting the wilderness
tsiyiy (Hebrew #6728)
a desert-dweller, i.e. nomad or wild beast
KJV usage: wild beast of the desert, that dwell in (inhabiting) the wilderness.
Pronounce: tsee-ee'
Origin: from the same as 6723
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Num. 14:9• 9Only rebel not ye against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not. (Num. 14:9)

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Cross References

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leviathan.
Psa. 104:25‑26• 25Yonder [is] the sea, great and wide,{HR}Moving things there and without number,{HR}Living creatures small and great:
 26There ships go,{HR}This leviathan thou hast made to play therein; (Psa. 104:25‑26)
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Job 3:8• 8Let cursers of days curse it,{HR}Who are prepared to rouse leviathan. (Job 3:8)
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Job 3•  (Job 3)
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Job 41:1‑34• 1Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle,{HR}Or, with a cord thou lettest down, his tongue?
 2Dost thou put a rush in his nose,{HR}Or bore his jaw with a thorn?
 3Will he multiply supplications to thee?{HR}Will he speak to thee tender things?
 4Will he make a covenant with thee?{HR}Wilt thou take him [for] ever as a slave?
 5Wilt thou sport with him as a bird, and bind him for thy girls?
 6Let partners bargain for him — divide him among traders!
 7Dost thou fill his skin with pikes, or his head with fish-spears?
 8Put thine hand on him — remember the battle —{HR}Thou wilt not do it again:
 9Behold, his hope proveth false.{HR}Even at the sight of him is not [one] cast down?
 10None is so fierce as to provoke him.{HR}And who [is] he that maketh a stand before me?
 11Who first gave to me, and I must repay?{HR}Under the whole heaven it [is] mine.
 12I will not be silent about his parts,{HR}And the matter of his powers, and the beauty of his structure.
 13Who hath uncovered the face of his garment?{HR}Into his double jaws who entereth in?
 14The doors of his face, who hath opened?{HR}Round about his teeth [is] terror;
 15A pride [are] the concave shields, shut up [as] a close seal;
 16One to another they join, and air entereth not between them;
 17One to another they adhere, they hold together, and separate not.
 18His sneezing flasheth forth light,{HR}And his eyes [are] as eyelids of the dawn.
 19Out of his mouth proceed torches, sparks of fire escape.
 20Out of his nostrils issue the smoke,{HR}As out of a seething pot and caldron.
 21His breath kindleth coals,{HR}And a flame cometh out from his mouth.
 22In his neck strength lodgeth, and before him danceth terror.
 23The flakes of his flesh are fitted close together;{HR}They are fixed fast on him, immovable.
 24His heart [is] firm as a stone, as a nether [millstone].
 25At his rising up the mighty tremble;{HR}From terror they miss their mark.
 26The sword of his overtaker doth not hold, spear, mace, nor lance;
 27He reckoneth iron as straw, copper as rotten wood;
 28The bolt (child) of the bow causeth him not to flee;{HR}Sling-stones are changed into stubble for him;
 29Clubs are reckoned as stubble;{HR}He laugheth at the shaking of a javelin.
 30His under parts [are] the sharpest of shards;{HR}He spreadeth a threshing-roller on the mire.
 31He maketh the deep boil as a pot,{HR}He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment;
 32After him he maketh the path to shine —{HR}One would think the deep hoary.
 33There is not on the dust dominion over him,{HR}Who is made to be without dread;
 34He looketh on all that is high,{HR}He [is] king over all the sons of pride. (Job 41:1‑34)
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Isa. 27:1• 1In that day Jehovah with his sore and great and strong sword will visit leviathan, the piercing serpent, and leviathan, the crooked serpent; and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea. (Isa. 27:1)
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Rev. 20:2• 2And he laid hold on the dragon, the ancient serpent, which is {i}the{/i} Devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, (Rev. 20:2)
meat.
Psa. 72:9• 9Before him shall bow dwellers in the desert,{HR}And his enemies shall lick the dust. (Psa. 72:9)
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Ex. 12:35‑36• 35{i}And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked of the Egyptians utensils of silver, and utensils of gold, and clothing.{/i}
 36{i}And Jehovah had given the people favour in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they gave to them; and they spoiled the Egyptians.{/i} (Ex. 12:35‑36)
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Ex. 14:30• 30{i}Thus Jehovah saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore.{/i} (Ex. 14:30)
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Num. 14:9• 9Only rebel not ye against Jehovah, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not. (Num. 14:9)

J. N. Darby Translation

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*Thou* didst break in pieces the heads of leviathanh, thou gavest him to be meat to thosei that people the desert.

JND Translation Notes

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As Job 3.8.
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i.e. the wild beasts.

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou didst crush the heads of leviathan,{HR}Thou gavest it as food to a people dwelling in the wilderness.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)