King James Version
Psalms 21:10 in the King James Version says “Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 21 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.”
Psalms 21:10 · KJV
Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand shall find out those that hate thee.
Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them.
Their fruit shalt thou destroy from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them. shalt thou: or, thou shalt set them as a butt back: Heb. shoulder
KJV Study — Public Domain
“shalt thou destroy”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
“from among the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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