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by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
Bible Verse Dictionary
Psalms 2:1 - Why
Psalms 2:1 - Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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Why | H4100 | מָה |
properly interrogitive what ? (including {how ?} why ? and when ?); but also exclamations like what ! (including {how !}) or indefinitely what (including {whatever} and even relatively that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjugational sneses |
do the heathen | H1471 | גּוֹי |
[Noun Masculine] a foreign nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of {animals} or a flight of locusts |
rage | H7283 | רָגַשׁ |
[Verb] to be tumultuous |
and the people | H3816 | לְאֹם |
[Noun Masculine] a community |
imagine | H1897 | הָגָה |
[Verb] to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication to ponder |
a vain thing | H7385 | רִיק |
[Noun Masculine] emptiness; figuratively a worthless thing; adverbially in vain |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.