King James Version
Psalms 48:7 in the King James Version says “Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 48 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.”
Psalms 48:7 · KJV
They saw it, and so they marvelled; they were troubled, and hasted away.
Fear took hold upon them there, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish with an east wind.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“wind”
H7307wind; by resemblance breath, i.e., a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the
“with an east”
H6921the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the east (often adverbially, eastward, for brevity the east wind)
“of Tarshish”
H8659tarshish, a place on the mediterranean, hence, the ephithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a persian and of an i
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