King James Version
Psalms 109:25 in the King James Version says “I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 109 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.”
Psalms 109:25 · KJV
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
My knees are weak through fasting; and my flesh faileth of fatness.
I became also a reproach unto them: when they looked upon me they shaked their heads.
Help me, O LORD my God: O save me according to thy mercy:
That they may know that this is thy hand; that thou, LORD, hast done it.
KJV Study — Public Domain
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“unto them when they looked”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“upon me they shaked”
H5128to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
“their heads”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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