Psalm 78:9
Strong's Lexicon
The archers
נוֹשְׁקֵ֥י (nō·wō·šə·qê)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 5401: 1) to put together, kiss 1a) (Qal) to kiss 1b) (Piel) to kiss 1c) (Hiphil) to touch gently 2) to handle, be equipped with 2a) (Qal) to be equipped

רוֹמֵי־ (rō·w·mê-)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 7411: 1) to cast, shoot, hurl 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to throw 1a2) bow-shooters, bowmen (participle) 1b) (Piel) to throw down 2) to beguile, deceive, mislead, deal treacherously 2a) (Piel) 2a1) to beguile, deceive, mislead, trick 2a2) to deal treacherously with, betray

קָ֑שֶׁת (qā·šeṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7198: 1) bow 1a) bow (for hunting, battle) 1b) bowmen, archers 1c) bow (fig. of might) 1d) rainbow

of Ephraim
אֶפְרַ֗יִם (’ep̄·ra·yim)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 669: Ephraim = 'double ash-heap: I shall be doubly fruitful' 1) second son of Joseph, blessed by him and given preference over first son, Manasseh 2) the tribe, Ephraim 3) the mountain country of Ephraim 4) sometimes used name for the northern kingdom (Hosea or Isaiah) 5) a city near Baal-hazor 6) a chief gate of Jerusalem

turned back
הָ֝פְכ֗וּ (hā·p̄ə·ḵū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2015: 1) to turn, overthrow, overturn 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to overturn, overthrow 1a2) to turn, turn about, turn over, turn around 1a3) to change, transform 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to turn oneself, turn, turn back 1b2) to change oneself 1b3) to be perverse 1b4) to be turned, be turned over, be changed, be turned against 1b5) to be reversed 1b6) to be overturned, be overthrown 1b7) to be upturned 1c) (Hithpael) 1c1) to transform oneself 1c2) to turn this way and that, turn every way 1d) (Hophal) to turn on someone

on the day
בְּי֣וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: 1) day, time, year 1a) day (as opposed to night) 1b) day (24 hour period) 1b1) as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1 1b2) as a division of time 1b2a) a working day, a day's journey 1c) days, lifetime (pl.) 1d) time, period (general) 1e) year 1f) temporal references 1f1) today 1f2) yesterday 1f3) tomorrow

of battle.
קְרָֽב׃ (qə·rāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7128: 1) battle, war

Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
The archers of Ephraim turned back on the day of battle.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Ephraim—armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, [Yet] they turned back in the day of battle.

King James Bible
The children of Ephraim, [being] armed, [and] carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.
Parallel Verses
New International Version
The men of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned back on the day of battle;

New Living Translation
The warriors of Ephraim, though armed with bows, turned their backs and fled on the day of battle.

English Standard Version
The Ephraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.

New American Standard Bible
The sons of Ephraim were archers equipped with bows, Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

King James Bible
The children of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Ephraimite archers turned back on the day of battle.

International Standard Version
The descendants of Ephraim were sharp shooters with the bow, but they retreated in the day of battle.

NET Bible
The Ephraimites were armed with bows, but they retreated in the day of battle.

American Standard Version
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, Turned back in the day of battle.

English Revised Version
The children of Ephraim, being armed and carrying bows, turned back in the day of battle.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of Ephraim -- armed bearers of bow, Have turned in a day of conflict.
















Cross References
Judges 20:39
And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

1 Chronicles 12:2
They were armed with bows, and could use both the right hand and the left in hurling stones and shooting arrows out of a bow, even of Saul's brethren of Benjamin.

Psalm 78:57
But turned back, and dealt unfaithfully like their fathers: they were turned aside like a deceitful bow.

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 78:8
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.

Psalm 78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Psalm 78:6
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Psalm 78:10
They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his law;

Psalm 78:11
And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed them.

Psalm 78:12
Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
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