King James Version
Psalms 78:59 in the King James Version says “When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 78 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:”
Psalms 78:59 · KJV
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel:
So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men;
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“When God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
“this he was wroth”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“and greatly”
H3966properly, vehemence, i.e., (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or
“Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
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