Psalm 27:2
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell."
Word-by-Word Analysis
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אָכַל
ʼâkal
to eat (literally or figuratively)
בָּשָׂר
bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
כָּשַׁל
kâshal
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
נָפַל
nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
כָּשַׁל kâshal
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
Study H3782 →נָפַל nâphal
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
Study H5307 →בָּשָׂר bâsâr
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
Study H1320 →Cross References
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy presence.
Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Arise, O LORD; save me, O my God: for thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheek bone; thou hast broken the teeth of the ungodly.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread: they have not called upon God.
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