Psalm 78:50
Strong's Lexicon
He cleared
יְפַלֵּ֥ס (yə·p̄al·lês)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6424: 1) (Piel) to weigh, make level, balance 1a) to weigh out 1b) to make level or smooth

a path
נָתִ֗יב (nā·ṯîḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5410: 1) trodden with the feet, path, pathway 2) path, pathway, traveller

for His anger;
לְאַ֫פּ֥וֹ (lə·’ap·pōw)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 639: 1) nostril, nose, face 2) anger

He did not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: 1) not, no 1a) not (with verb-absolute prohibition) 1b) not (with modifier-negation) 1c) nothing (subst) 1d) without (with particle) 1e) before (of time)

spare
חָשַׂ֣ךְ (ḥā·śaḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2820: 1) to withhold, restrain, hold back, keep in check, refrain 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to withhold, keep back, keep for oneself, keep from, hold in check, refrain, spare, reserve 1a2) to restrain, check 1b) (Niphal) to assuage, be spared

them
נַפְשָׁ֑ם (nap̄·šām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5315: 1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion 1a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man 1b) living being 1c) living being (with life in the blood) 1d) the man himself, self, person or individual 1e) seat of the appetites 1f) seat of emotions and passions 1g) activity of mind 1g1) dubious 1h) activity of the will 1h1) dubious 1i) activity of the character 1i1) dubious

from death
מִמָּ֣וֶת (mim·mā·weṯ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4194: 1) death, dying, Death (personified), realm of the dead 1a) death 1b) death by violence (as a penalty) 1c) state of death, place of death

but delivered
הִסְגִּֽיר׃ (his·gîr)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5462: 1) to shut, close 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shut 1a2) to close, close up 1a3) closed up, closely joined, shut up 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be shut up 1b2) to be shut or closed 1c) (Piel) to shut up, deliver up 1d) (Pual) to be shut up 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to deliver up 1e2) to shut up, imprison

their lives
וְ֝חַיָּתָ֗ם (wə·ḥay·yā·ṯām)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2416: adj 1) living, alive 1a) green (of vegetation) 1b) flowing, fresh (of water) 1c) lively, active (of man) 1d) reviving (of the springtime) n m 2) relatives 3) life (abstract emphatic) 3a) life 3b) sustenance, maintenance n f 4) living thing, animal 4a) animal 4b) life 4c) appetite 4d) revival, renewal 5) community

to the plague.
לַדֶּ֥בֶר (lad·de·ḇer)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1698: 1) pestilence, plague 2) murrain, cattle disease, cattle-plague

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

Young's Literal Translation
He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

New American Standard Bible
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,

King James Bible
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
Parallel Verses
New International Version
He prepared a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death but gave them over to the plague.

New Living Translation
He turned his anger against them; he did not spare the Egyptians' lives but ravaged them with the plague.

English Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; he did not spare them from death, but gave their lives over to the plague.

New American Standard Bible
He leveled a path for His anger; He did not spare their soul from death, But gave over their life to the plague,

King James Bible
He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He cleared a path for His anger. He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.

International Standard Version
He blazed a path for his anger; he did not stop short from killing them, but handed them over to pestilence.

NET Bible
He sent his anger in full force; he did not spare them from death; he handed their lives over to destruction.

American Standard Version
He made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,

English Revised Version
He made a path for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;

Young's Literal Translation
He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.
















Cross References
Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exodus 12:30
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

Exodus 15:7
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

Psalm 2:5
Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.

Amos 4:10
I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

Psalm 78:49
He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

Psalm 78:48
He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts.

Psalm 78:47
He destroyed their vines with hail, and their sycomore trees with frost.

Psalm 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Psalm 78:52
But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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