Psalm 21:11
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform."
Word-by-Word Analysis
נָטָה
nâṭâh
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
רַע
raʻ
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
מְזִמָּה
mᵉzimmâh
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
מַחֲשָׁבָה
machăshâbâh
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
יָכֹל
yâkôl
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
קוּם
qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Key Terms in This Verse
נָטָה nâṭâh
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application
Study H5186 →מְזִמָּה mᵉzimmâh
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
Study H4209 →מַחֲשָׁבָה machăshâbâh
a contrivance, i.e. (concretely) a texture, machine, or (abstractly) intention, plan (whether bad, a plot; or good, advice)
Study H4284 →קוּם qûwm
to rise (in various applications, literal, figurative, intensive and causative)
Study H6965 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and...
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.
Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:
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