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Psalms 1:4

Not so the wicked! For they are like chaff driven off by the wind.

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ASV

The wicked are not so, But are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

KJV

The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
כֵ֥ןkhen[are] soH3651 →
הָרְשָׁעִ֑יםha.re.sha.'Imthe wicked [people]H7563 →
כִּ֥יkithatH3588 →
אִם־'im-exceptH518 →
כַּ֝מֹּ֗ץka.Motz[they are] like the chaffH4671 →
אֲֽשֶׁר־'asher-whichH834 →
תִּדְּפֶ֥נּוּti.de.Fe.nuit drives about itH5086 →
רֽוּחַ׃Ru.achwindH7307 →

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Job 21:18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Psalms 35:5May they be like chaff in the wind, as the angel of the LORD drives them away.Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.Isaiah 29:5But your many foes will be like fine dust, the multitude of the ruthless like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,Hosea 13:3Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor, like smoke through an open window.Zephaniah 2:2before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you.Luke 3:17His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather the wheat into His barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”Jeremiah 17:6He will be like a shrub in the desert; he will not see when prosperity comes. He will dwell in the parched places of the desert, in a salt land where no one lives.Jeremiah 13:24“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.Psalms 104:35May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!Jeremiah 15:7I will scatter them with a winnowing fork at the gates of the land. I will bereave and destroy My people who have not turned from their ways.Job 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.Psalms 92:9For surely Your enemies, O LORD, surely Your enemies will perish; all evildoers will be scattered.Hosea 13:15Although he flourishes among his brothers, an east wind will come—a wind from the LORD rising up from the desert. His fountain will fail, and his spring will run dry. The wind will plunder his treasury of every precious article.Isaiah 57:13When you cry out, let your companies of idols deliver you! Yet the wind will carry off all of them, a breath will take them away. But he who seeks refuge in Me will inherit the land and possess My holy mountain.”Isaiah 41:16You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 64:6Each of us has become like something unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all wither like a leaf, and our iniquities carry us away like the wind.

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