King James Version
Psalms 78:55 in the King James Version says “He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwel...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.”
Psalms 78:55 · KJV
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies. overwhelmed: Heb. covered
And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this mountain, which his right hand had purchased.
He cast out the heathen also before them, and divided them an inheritance by line, and made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.
Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies:
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He cast out”
H1644to drive out from a possession; especially to expatriate or divorce
“also before”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“the heathen”
H1471a foreign nation; hence, a gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
“them and divided”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
“them an inheritance”
H5159properly, something inherited, i.e., (abstractly) occupancy, or (concretely) an heirloom; generally an estate, patrimony or portion
“and made the tribes”
H7626a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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