Psalms 78:40

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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!	Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

How^H4100 oft did they provoke^H4784 him in the wilderness^H4057, and grieve^H6087 him in the desert^H3452!

Original Hebrew

כַּמָּה יַמְרוּהוּ בַמִּדְבָּר יַעֲצִיבוּהוּ בִּישִׁימֹון׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
כַּ֭/מָּה	Ka./mah	H4100	HR/Ti	how/ often!
יַמְר֣וּ/הוּ	yam.Ru./hu	H4784	HVhi3mp/Sp3ms	they rebelled against/ him
בַ/מִּדְבָּ֑ר	va./mid.Bar	H4057	HRd/Ncmsa	in the/ wilderness
יַ֝עֲצִיב֗וּ/הוּ	ya.'a.tzi.Vu./hu	H6087	HVhi3mp/Sp3ms	they grieved/ him
בִּֽ/ישִׁימֽוֹן	Bi./shi.Mon	H3452	HR/Ncmsa	in/ a desolate place

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

Strong's References

H3452 — יְשִׁימוֹן (yᵉshîymôwn, yesh-ee-mone'): from יָשַׁם; a desolation; desert, Jeshimon, solitary, wilderness.
H4057 — מִדְבָּר (midbâr, mid-bawr'): from דָבַר in the sense of driving; a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs); desert, south, speech, wilderness.
H4100 — מָה (mâh, maw): or מַה; or מָ; or מַ; also מֶה; a primitive particle; properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses; how (long, oft, (-soever)), (no-) thing, what (end, good, purpose, thing), whereby(-fore, -in, -to, -with), (for) why.
H4784 — מָרָה (mârâh, maw-raw'): a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke); bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
H6087 — עָצַב (ʻâtsab, aw-tsab'): a primitive root; properly, to carve, i.e. fabricate or fashion; hence (in a bad sense) to worry, pain or anger; displease, grieve, hurt, make, be sorry, vex, worship, wrest.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

grieve — Isaiah 7:13, Isaiah 63:10, Ephesians 4:30, Hebrews 3:15-17
How oft — Numbers 14:11, Deuteronomy 9:21-22, Psalms 78:17, Psalms 95:8-10, Psalms 106:14-33

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