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Psalms 114:3

114:2 Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion.
The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

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The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back.

114:4 The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs.

What does Psalms 114:3 mean?

Psalms 114:3 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יָם (yâm), רָאָה (râʼâh), נוּס (nûwç).

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seaיָםyâm/yawm/H3220a sea (as breaking in noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the south
sawרָאָהrâʼâh/raw-aw'/H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
it,
and
fled:נוּסnûwç/noos/H5127to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
JordanיַרְדֵּןYardên/yar-dane'/H3383Jarden, the principal river of Palestine
was
drivenסָבַבçâbab/saw-bab'/H5437to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively
back.אָחוֹרʼâchôwr/aw-khore'/H268the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the West

Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 114:3.

Exodus 13:18

But God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. harnessed: or, by five in a rank

Exodus 14:27

And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. overthrew: Heb. shook off

Genesis 1:10

And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 13:10

And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.

Genesis 13:14

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

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What does Psalms 114:3 say?

Psalms 114:3 (King James Version) reads: "The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back."

Is Psalms 114:3 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 114:3 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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