King James Version
Psalms 78:44 in the King James Version says “And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.”
Psalms 78:44 · KJV
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
And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.
He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
He gave also their increase unto the caterpiller, and their labour unto the locust.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And had turned”
H2015to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
“into blood”
H1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshe
“their rivers”
H2975a channel, e.g., a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the nile, as the one river of egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the tigris, as the m
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