King James Version
Psalms 146:4 in the King James Version says “His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 146 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.”
Psalms 146:4 · KJV
While I live will I praise the LORD: I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help. help: or, salvation
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God:
Which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is: which keepeth truth for ever:
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“goeth forth”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“His breath”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“he returneth”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“in that very day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“perish”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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