Psalm 55:3
Old Testament • 10 words with Strong's data
"Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me."
Word-by-Word Analysis
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
פָּנִים
pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi...
עֹשֶׁק
ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
רָשָׁע
râshâʻ
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
שָׁלַךְ
shâlak
to throw out, down or away (literally or figuratively)
אַף
ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Key Terms in This Verse
עֹשֶׁק ʻôsheq
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
Study H6233 →אַף ʼaph
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
Study H639 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →פָּנִים pânîym
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
Study H6440 →Cross References
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.
Saying, God hath forsaken him: persecute and take him; for there is none to deliver him.
For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king shoul...
Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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