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Psalms 124:4

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:

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אֲ֭זַיazaythenאֲזַיadverb — “then”H233at that timethen.הַמַּ֣יִםhamayimthe waterמַיִםdefinite article, noun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “the water”, the ordinary formH4325water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen[phrase] piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).שְׁטָפ֑וּנוּshetafunvdrownשָׁטַףverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “drown”, a completed actionH7857to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquerdrown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).נַ֗֜חְלָהnachlahbrookנַחַלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute, paragogic he — “brook”, the ordinary formH5158a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine)brook, flood, river, stream, valley.עָבַ֥רavaralienateעָבַרverb, qal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “alienate”, a completed actionH5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)alienate, alter, [idiom] at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-) come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way…עַלalaboveעַלpreposition — “above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…נַפְשֵֽׁנוּnafshenvcreatureנֶפֶשׁnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, plural — “creature”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally,…

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul;

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American Standard Version (1901)

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, The stream had gone over our soul;

Young’s Literal Translation

Then the waters had overflowed us, The stream passed over our soul,

World English Bible

then the waters would have overwhelmed us, the stream would have gone over our soul.

Darby Translation

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, a torrent had gone over our soul;

Douay-Rheims

Do good, O Lord, to those that are good, and to the upright of heart.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul;

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

verily the water would have drowned us, our soul would have gone under the torrent.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

ἄρα τὸ ὕδωρ ἂν κατεπόντισεν ἡμᾶς· χείμαῤῥον διῆλθεν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν.