Psalms 78:57

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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.	For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

But turned back^H5472, and dealt unfaithfully^H898 like their fathers^H1: they were turned aside^H2015 like a deceitful^H7423 bow^H7198.

Original Hebrew

וַיִּסֹּגוּ וַיִּבְגְּדוּ כַּאֲבֹותָם נֶהְפְּכוּ כְּקֶשֶׁת רְמִיָּה׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יִּסֹּ֣גוּ	va/i.yi.So.gu	H5472	HC/VNw3mp	and/ they turned back
וַֽ֭/יִּבְגְּדוּ	Va/i.yiv.ge.du	H898	HC/Vqw3mp	and/ they acted treacherously
כַּ/אֲבוֹתָ֑/ם	ka./'a.vo.Ta/m	H1	HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp	like/ ancestors/ their
נֶ֝הְפְּכ֗וּ	neh.pe.Khu	H2015	HVNp3cp	they changed
כְּ/קֶ֣שֶׁת	ke./Ke.shet	H7198	HR/Ncfsc	like/ a bow of
רְמִיָּֽה	re.mi.Yah	H7423	HNcfsa	deceit

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

Strong's References

H1 — אָב (ʼâb, awb): a primitive word; father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application; chief, (fore-) father(-less), [idiom] patrimony, principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'.
H898 — בָּגַד (bâgad, baw-gad'): a primitive root; to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage; deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), [idiom] very.
H2015 — הָפַךְ (hâphak, haw-fak'): a primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert; [idiom] become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
H5472 — סוּג (çûwg, soog): a primitive root; properly, to flinch, i.e. (by implication) to go back, literally (to retreat) or figuratively (to apostatize); backslider, drive, go back, turn (away, back).
H7198 — קֶשֶׁת (qesheth, keh'-sheth): from קָשָׁה in the original sense (of קוֹשׁ) of bending; a bow, forshooting (hence, figuratively, strength) or the iris; [idiom] arch(-er), [phrase] arrow, bow(-man, -shot).
H7423 — רְמִיָּה (rᵉmîyâh, rem-ee-yaw'): from רָמָה; remissness, treachery; deceit(-ful, -fully), false, guile, idle, slack, slothful.

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