Psalm 40:2
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
זַלְעָפָה
zalʻâphâh
a glow (of wind or anger); also a famine (as consuming)
בּוֹר
bôwr
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
חֹמֶר
chômer
properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
רֶגֶל
regel
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
צוּר
tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
כּוּן
kûwn
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, ...
Key Terms in This Verse
זַלְעָפָה zalʻâphâh
a glow (of wind or anger); also a famine (as consuming)
Study H2152 →חֹמֶר chômer
properly, a bubbling up, i.e. of water, a wave; of earth, mire or clay (cement); also a heap; hence, a chomer or dry measure
Study H2563 →כּוּן kûwn
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render su...
Study H3559 →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 →רֶגֶל regel
a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
Study H7272 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Thou, which hast shewed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.
For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.
I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the floods overflow me.
As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water.
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, that my feet did not slip.
Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.
Hold up my goings in thy paths, that my footsteps slip not.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
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