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Psalms 105:29

In Psalms 105 of Psalms.

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

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הָפַ֣ךְhafakhchangeהָפַךְverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “change”, a completed actionH2015to 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).אֶתetobject markerאֵתparticle, direct object marker — “object marker”H853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)(as such unrepresented in English).מֵימֵיהֶ֣םmeymeyhemwaterמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “water”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).לְדָ֑םledamto blood , innocentדָּםpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “to blood , innocent”, the ordinary formH1818blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), [phrase] innocent.וַ֝יָּ֗מֶתvayametand dieמוּתconjunction, verb, hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and die”, the next action in the storyH4191to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill[idiom] at all, [idiom] crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), [idiom] must needs, slay, [idiom] surely, [idiom] very suddenly, [idiom] in (no) w…אֶתetobject markerאֵתparticle, direct object marker — “object marker”H853properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)(as such unrepresented in English).דְּגָתָֽםdegatamfishדָּגָהnoun, common, feminine, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “fish”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH1710{a fish (often used collectively)}fish.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

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American Standard Version (1901)

He turned their waters into blood, And slew their fish.

Young’s Literal Translation

He hath turned their waters to blood, And putteth to death their fish.

World English Bible

He turned their waters into blood, and killed their fish.

Darby Translation

He turned their waters into blood, and caused their fish to die.

Douay-Rheims

And they provoked him with their inventions: and destruction was multiplied among them.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

He turned their waters into blood, and slew their fish.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Μετέστρεψε τὰ ὕδατα αὐτῶν εἰς αἷμα, καὶ ἀπέκτεινε τοὺς ἰχθύας αὐτῶν.

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