King James Version

Psalms 78:44

And had turned their rivers into blood; and their floods, that they could not drink.

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וַיַּהֲפֹ֣ךְvayahafokheand changeהָפַךְconjunction, verb, qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “and change”, the next action in the storyH2015to 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).לְ֭דָםledamto 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.יְאֹרֵיהֶ֑םyeoreyhemriverיְאֹרnoun, common, masculine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “river”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH2975a channel, e.g. a fosse, canal, shaft; specifically the Nile, as the one river of Egypt, including its collateral trenches; also the Tigris, as the main river of Assyriabrook, flood, river, stream.וְ֝נֹזְלֵיהֶ֗םvenozeleyhemand distilנָזַלconjunction, verb, qal, participle, construct, suffix, pronominal, 3rd person, masculine, plural — “and distil”, a verb used as a describing wordH5140to drip, or shed by tricklingdistil, drop, flood, (cause to) flow(-ing), gush out, melt, pour (down), running water, stream.בַּלballestבַּלparticle, negative — “lest”H1077properly, a failure; by implication nothing; usually (adverb) not at all; also lestlest, neither, no, none (that...), not (any), nothing.יִשְׁתָּיֽוּןyishtayunbanquetשָׁתָהverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural, paragogic nun — “banquet”, an unfinished actionH8354to imbibe (literally or figuratively)[idiom] assuredly, banquet, [idiom] certainly, drink(-er, -ing), drunk ([idiom] -ard), surely. (Prop. intensive of H8248 (שָׁקָה).)

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.

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American Standard Version (1901)

And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.

Young’s Literal Translation

And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.

World English Bible

he turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, so that they could not drink.

Darby Translation

And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

And turned their rivers into blood, so that they could not drink their streams.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

and had changed their rivers into blood; and their streams, that they should not drink.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

τέρατα αὐτοῦ ἐν πεδίῳ Τάνεως· Καὶ μετέστρεψεν εἰς αἷμα τοὺς ποταμοὺς αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ ὀμβρήματα αὐτῶν ὅπως μὴ πίωσιν·