King James Version
Psalms 78:41 in the King James Version says “Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”
Psalms 78:41 · KJV
For he remembered that they were but flesh; a wind that passeth away, and cometh not again.
How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert! provoke: or, rebel against
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
They remembered not his hand, nor the day when he delivered them from the enemy. from: or, from affliction
How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan: wrought: Heb. set
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Yea they turned back”
H7725to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);
“God”
H410strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the almighty (but used also of any deity)
“the Holy One”
H6918sacred (ceremonially or morally); (as noun) god (by eminence), an angel, a saint, a sanctuary
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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