King James Version
Psalms 22:14 in the King James Version says “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bow...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. out of: or, sundered”
Psalms 22:14 · KJV
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. gaped: Heb. opened their mouths against me
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. out of: or, sundered
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I am poured out”
H8210to spill forth (blood, a libation, liquid metal; or even a solid, i.e., to mound up); also (figuratively) to expend (life, soul, complaint, money, etc
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all my bones”
H6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“my heart”
H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the center of anything
“it is melted”
H4549to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
“of my bowels”
H4578used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extension the stomach, the uteru
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