Psalms 137:4

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For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.	How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange land?	If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

How shall we sing^H7891 the LORD'S^H3068 song^H7892 in a strange^H5236 land^H127?

Original Hebrew

אֵיךְ נָשִׁיר אֶת־שִׁיר־יְהוָה עַל אַדְמַת נֵכָר׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
אֵ֗יךְ	'Eikh	H349	HTi	how?
נָשִׁ֥יר	na.Shir	H7891	HVqi1cp	will we sing
אֶת	'et-	H853	HTo	(obj.)
שִׁיר	shir-	H7892	HNcbsc	(the) song of
יְהוָ֑ה	Yah.weh	H3068	HNp	Yahweh
עַ֝֗ל	'Al	H5921	HR	on
אַדְמַ֥ת	'ad.Mat	H127	HNcfsc	ground of
נֵכָֽר	ne.Khar	H5236	HNcmsa	foreignness

Strong's References

H127 — אֲדָמָה (ʼădâmâh, ad-aw-maw'): from אָדַם (ʼâdam) H119; soil (from its general redness); country, earth, ground, husband(-man) (-ry), land.
H3068 — יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'): from הָיָה (hâyâh) H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ (Yâhh) H3050, יְהֹוִה (Yᵉhôvih) H3069.
H5236 — נֵכָר (nêkâr, nay-kawr'): ' from נָכַר (nâkar) H5234; foreign, or (concretely) a foreigner, or (abstractly) heathendom; alien, strange ([phrase] -er).
H7891 — שִׁיר (shîyr, sheer): or (the original form) שׁוּר (shûwr); (1 Samuel 18:6), a primitive root (rather identical with שׁוּר (shûwr) H7788 through the idea of strolling minstrelsy); to sing; behold (by mistake for שׁוּר (shûwr) H7789), sing(-er, -ing man, -ing woman).
H7892 — שִׁיר (shîyr, sheer): or feminine שִׁירָה (shîyrâh); from שִׁיר (shîyr) H7891; a song; abstractly, singing; musical(-ick), [idiom] sing(-er, -ing), song.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

H349 — אֵיךְ (ʼêyk, ake): also אֵיכָה (ʼêykâh) ; and אֵיכָכָה (ʼêykâkâh) ; prolonged from אַי (ʼay) H335; how? or how!; also where; how, what.
H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת (ʼôwth) H226 in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).
H5921 — עַל (ʻal, al): properly, the same as עַל (ʻal) H5920 used as a preposition (in the singular or plural often with prefix, or as conjunction with a particle following); above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications; above, 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, (from) (off), (up-) on, over, than, through(-out), to, touching, [idiom] with.

Cross References

Verse Cross-References

How shall — Ecclesiastes 3:4, Isaiah 22:12, Lamentations 5:14-15, Hosea 9:4, Amos 8:3
strange land — Isaiah 49:21

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