King James Version
Psalms 105:18 in the King James Version says “Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: he: Heb. his soul came into iron” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 105 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: he: Heb. his soul came into iron”
Psalms 105:18 · KJV
Moreover he called for a famine upon the land: he brake the whole staff of bread.
He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant:
Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: he: Heb. his soul came into iron
Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the people, and let him go free.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“they hurt”
H6031to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
“Whose feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
“he”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
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