Bible Verse Dictionary
Psalms 137:1 - Babylon
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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By | H5921 | עַל |
[Preposition] {above} over: {upon} or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications |
the rivers | H5104 | נָהָר |
[Noun Masculine] a stream (including the sea; especially the {Nile} {Euphrates} etc.); {figuratively} prosperity |
of Babylon | H894 | בָּבֶל |
[Proper Name Location] confusion; Babel (that {is} {Babylon}) including Babylonia and the Babylonian empire |
there | H8033 | שָׁם |
[Adverb] there (transfered to time) then; often {thither} or thence |
we sat down | H3427 | יָשַׁב |
[Verb] properly to sit down (specifically as {judge} in {ambush} in quiet); by implication to {dwell} to remain; causatively to {settle} to marry |
yea | H1571 | גַּם |
[Adverb] properly assemblage; used only adverbially {also} even: {yea} though; often repeated as correlation both ... and |
we wept | H1058 | בָּכָה |
[Verb] to weep; generally to bemoan |
when we remembered | H2142 | זָכַר |
[Verb] properly to mark (so as to be {recognized}) that {is} to remember; by implication to mention; also (as denominative from H2145) to be male |
Zion | H6726 | צִיּוֹן |
[Proper Name Location] Tsijon (as a permanent {capital }) a mountain of Jerusalem |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.