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Psalms 144:6

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Send out Your arrows and confuse them.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; Send out thine arrows, and discomfit them.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot thy arrows, and destroy them.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Cast forth lightnings, and scatter them; send forth thine arrows, and discomfit them:
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Flash forth lightning, that thou mayest scatter them, Send out thine arrows, that thou mayest confound them:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Send forth lightning, and scatter them, Send forth Thine arrows, and trouble them,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Cast forth the lightning & scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and consume them.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoote out thine arrowes, and destroy them.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them; shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— Send lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: send forth thine arrows, and thou shalt discomfit them.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Cast forth 1299
{1299} Prime
בָּרַק
baraq
{baw-rak'}
A primitive root; to lighten (lightning).
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
lightning, 1300
{1300} Prime
בָּרָק
baraq
{baw-rawk'}
From H1299; lightning; by analogy a gleam; concretely a flashing sword.
and scatter 6327
{6327} Prime
פּוּץ
puwts
{poots}
A primitive root; to dash in pieces, literally or figuratively (especially to disperse).
z8686
<8686> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 4046
them: shoot out 7971
{7971} Prime
שָׁלַח
shalach
{shaw-lakh'}
A primitive root; to send away, for, or out (in a great variety of applications).
z8798
<8798> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperative (See H8810)
Count - 2847
thine arrows, 2671
{2671} Prime
חֵץ
chets
{khayts}
From H2686; properly a piercer, that is, an arrow; by implication a wound; figuratively (of God) thunder bolt; (by interchange for H6086) the shaft of a spear.
and destroy 2000
{2000} Prime
הָמַם
hamam
{haw-mam'}
A primitive root (compare H1949, H1993); properly to put in commotion; by implication to disturb, drive, destroy.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
them.
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 144:1-15.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Psalms 144:1-8.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Psalms 144:6

(e) Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.

(e) By these manner of speeches he shows that all the hindrances in the world cannot prevent God's power, which he apprehends by faith.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
Cast forth:

Psalms 18:13-14 The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail [stones] and coals of fire. ... Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
Psalms 77:17-18 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. ... The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
2 Samuel 22:12-15 And he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters, [and] thick clouds of the skies. ... And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.

shoot out:

Psalms 7:12 If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.
Psalms 21:12 Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, [when] thou shalt make ready [thine arrows] upon thy strings against the face of them.
Psalms 45:5 Thine arrows [are] sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; [whereby] the people fall under thee.
Deuteronomy 32:23 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them.
Deuteronomy 32:42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh; [and that] with the blood of the slain and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Dt 32:23, 42. 2S 22:12. Ps 7:12; 18:13; 21:12; 45:5; 77:17.

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