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Psalms 144:4

144:3 LORD, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

What does Psalms 144:4 mean?

Psalms 144:4 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include אָדָם (ʼâdâm), דָּמָה (dâmâh), הֶבֶל (hebel).

Hebrew interlinear

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Manאָדָםʼâdâm/aw-dawm'/H120ruddy i.e. a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc.)
is
likeדָּמָהdâmâh/daw-maw'/H1819to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
to
vanity:הֶבֶלhebel/heh'bel/H1892emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb
his
daysיוֹםyôwm/yome/H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
are
as
a
shadowצֵלtsêl/tsale/H6738shade, whether literal or figurative
that
passeth
away.עָבַרʻâbar/aw-bar'/H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 144:4.

Genesis 3:8

And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. cool: Heb. wind

Genesis 5:1

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:2

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 6:3

And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Genesis 6:4

There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

Genesis 6:5

And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. every: or, the whole imagination: the Hebrew word signifieth not only the imagination, but also the purposes and desires continually: Heb. every day

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What does Psalms 144:4 say?

Psalms 144:4 (King James Version) reads: "Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away."

Is Psalms 144:4 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 144:4 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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