King James Version
Psalms 124:4 in the King James Version says “Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 124 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:”
Psalms 124:4 · KJV
If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us:
Then they had swallowed us up quick, when their wrath was kindled against us:
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
Then the proud waters had gone over our soul.
Blessed be the LORD, who hath not given us as a prey to their teeth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“had overwhelmed”
H7857to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
“us the stream”
H5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)
“had gone over”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“our soul”
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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