Original Language Studio
Psalms 77:9
“Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
אָפֵסʼâphêç · aw-face'
H656 · Hebrew
H656 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to disappear, i.e. cease
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- be clean gone (at an end, brought to nought), fail.
- Grammar
- הֶ — particle (interrogative)
- אָפֵ֣ס — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 5 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 47:15Genesis 47:16Isaiah 16:4Isaiah 29:20
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read אָפֵס here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.