Psalm 27:12
Old Testament • 9 words with Strong's data
"Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty."
Word-by-Word Analysis
נָצַל
nâtsal
to snatch away, whether in a good or a bad sense
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
עֵד
ʻêd
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
נָפַח
nâphach
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
חָמָס
châmâç
violence; by implication, wrong; by meton. unjust gain
Key Terms in This Verse
נָפַח nâphach
to puff, in various applications (literally, to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, expire; figuratively, to disesteem)
Study H5301 →עֵד ʻêd
concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince
Study H5707 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over me.
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,
Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.
Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be t...
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. Selah.
For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.
Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.
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