Psalms 129:3

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Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me.	The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.	The LORD [is] righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

The plowers^H2790 plowed^H2790 upon my back^H1354: they made long^H748 their furrows^{H4618 H4618}.

Original Hebrew

עַל־גַּבִּי חָרְשׁוּ חֹרְשִׁים הֶאֱרִיכוּ [לְמַעֲנֹותָם כ] (לְמַעֲנִיתָם׃ ק)

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
עַל	'al-	H5921	HR	on
גַּ֭בִּ/י	Ga.b/i	H1354	HNcbsc/Sp1cs	back/ my
חָרְשׁ֣וּ	cha.re.Shu	H2790	HVqp3cp	they have plowed
חֹרְשִׁ֑ים	cho.re.Shim	H2790	HVqrmpa	plowmen
הֶ֝אֱרִ֗יכוּ	he.'e.Ri.khu	H748	HVhp3cp	they have made long
ל/מענות/ם	maʻănâh	H4618	HR/Ncfpc/Sp3mp

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

H748 — אָרַךְ (ʼârak, aw-rak'): a primitive root; to be (causative, make) long (literally or figuratively); defer, draw out, lengthen, (be, become, make, pro-) long, [phrase] (out-, over-) live, tarry (long).
H1354 — גַב (gab, gab): from an unused root meaning to hollow or curve; (compare גֵּו and גּוּף); the back (as rounded); by analogy, the top or rim, a boss, a vault, arch of eye, bulwarks, etc.; back, body, boss, eminent (higher) place, (eye) brows, nave, ring.
H2790 — חָרַשׁ (chârash, khaw-rash'): a primitive root; to scratch, i.e. (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively, to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness); [idiom] altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
H4618 — מַעֲנָה (maʻănâh, mah-an-aw'): from עָנָה, in the sense of depression or tilling; a furrow; [phrase] acre, furrow.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

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