Psalm 39:12

Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data

"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."

Word-by-Word Analysis

שָׁמַע

shâmaʻ

H8085

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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my

תְּפִלָּה

tᵉphillâh

H8605

intercession, supplication; by implication, a hymn

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O

יְהֹוָה

Yᵉhôvâh

H3068

Jehovah, Jewish national name of God

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and

נָתַן

nâthan

H5414

to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)

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אֹזֶן

ʼôzen

H241

broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)

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unto my

קָרָא

qârâʼ

H7121

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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חָזַק

châzaq

H2388

to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restra...

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not thy

שָׁלוֹם

shâlôwm

H7965

safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace

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at my

דִּמְעָה

dimʻâh

H1832

weeping

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for I am a

גֵּר

gêr

H1616

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

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with thee and a

תּוֹשָׁב

tôwshâb

H8453

resident alien

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as all my

אָב

ʼâb

H1

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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were

Key Terms in This Verse

sojourner H8453

תּוֹשָׁב tôwshâb

resident alien

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tears H1832

דִּמְעָה dimʻâh

weeping

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prayer H8605

תְּפִלָּה tᵉphillâh

intercession, supplication; by implication, a hymn

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ear H241

אֹזֶן ʼôzen

broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)

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stranger H1616

גֵּר gêr

properly, a guest; by implication, a foreigner

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cry H7121

קָרָא qârâʼ

to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)

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hold H2388

חָזַק châzaq

to fasten upon; hence, to seize, be strong (figuratively, courageous, causatively strengthen, cure, help, repair, fortify), obstinate; to bind, restrain, conquer

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peace H7965

שָׁלוֹם shâlôwm

safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace

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fathers H1

אָב ʼâb

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

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Hear H8085

שָׁמַע shâmaʻ

to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)

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Cross References

1 Peter 2:11 cross-reference

Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Hebrews 11:13 cross-reference

These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the eart...

2 Kings 20:5 cross-reference

Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day tho...

Leviticus 25:23 cross-reference

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

Psalm 119:19 cross-reference

I am a stranger in the earth: hide not thy commandments from me.

Psalm 116:3 cross-reference

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.

Genesis 47:9 cross-reference

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the...

1 Chronicles 29:15 cross-reference

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.

Psalm 56:8 cross-reference

Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?

Hebrews 5:7 cross-reference

Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

1 Peter 1:17 cross-reference

And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:

Job 16:20 cross-reference

My friends scorn me: but mine eye poureth out tears unto God.

2 Samuel 16:12 cross-reference

It may be that the LORD will look on mine affliction, and that the LORD will requite me good for his cursing this day.

Psalm 102:1 cross-reference

Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.

2 Corinthians 5:6 cross-reference

Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

Psalm 119:54 cross-reference

Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.

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