Thou breakest
7665 {7665} Primeשָׁבַרshabar{shaw-bar'}
A primitive root; to burst (literally or figuratively).
z8762 <8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 2447
the ships
591 {0591} Primeאֳנִיָּה'oniyah{on-ee-yaw'}
Feminine of H0590; a ship.
of
Taršîš
תַּרשִׁישׁ
8659 {8659} PrimeתַּרְשִׁישׁTarshiysh{tar-sheesh'}
Probably the same as H8658 (as the region of the stone, or the reverse); Tarshish, a place on the Mediterranean, hence the epithet of a merchant vessel (as if for or from that port); also the name of a Persian and of an Israelite.
with an east
6921 {6921} Primeקָדִיםqadiym{kaw-deem'}
From H6923; the fore or front part; hence (by orientation) the East (often adverbially eastward, for brevity the East wind).
wind.
7307 {7307} Primeרוּחַruwach{roo'-akh}
From H7306; wind; by resemblance breath, that is, a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions). |
Psalms 48:7
_ _ ships of Tarshish — as engaged in a distant and lucrative trade, the most valuable. The phrase may illustrate God’s control over all material agencies, whether their literal destruction be meant or not. |
Psalms 48:7
Breakest — Thou didst no less violently and suddenly destroy these raging enemies of Jerusalem, than sometimes thou destroyest the ships at sea with a fierce and vehement wind, such as the eastern winds were in those parts. |
Psalms 48:7
Thou breakest the ships (g) of Tarshish with an east wind.
(g) That is, of Cilicia or of the Mediterranean sea. |
- breakest:
Ezekiel 27:25-26 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the midst of the seas. ... Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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- ships:
1 Kings 22:48 Jehoshaphat made ships of Tharshish to go to Ophir for gold: but they went not; for the ships were broken at Eziongeber.
Isaiah 2:16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
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- east:
Jeremiah 18:17 I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
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