Psalm 28:1
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit."
Word-by-Word Analysis
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
צוּר
tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
דָּמַם
dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
בִּלְתִּי
biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because no...
דָּמַם
dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
הָיָה
hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
יָלַךְ
yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
Key Terms in This Verse
דָּמַם dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
Study H1826 →דָּמַם dâmam
to be dumb; by implication, to be astonished, to stop; also to perish
Study H1826 →צוּר tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Study H6697 →הָיָה hâyâh
to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
Study H1961 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →בִּלְתִּי biltîy
properly, a failure of, i.e. (used only as a negative particle, usually with a prepositional prefix) not, except, without, unless, besides, because not, until, etc.
Study H1115 →יָלַךְ yâlak
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Study H3212 →Cross References
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.
Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loose...
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
For the grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me.
Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear unto my cry; hold not thy peace at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.
I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
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