Psalm 69:4
Old Testament • 14 words with Strong's data
"They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away."
Word-by-Word Analysis
חוּץ
chûwts
properly, separate by awall, i.e. outside, outdoors
רֹאשׁ
rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
שָׁחַת
shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
שֶׁקֶר
sheqer
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
גִּבּוֹר
gibbôwr
powerful; by implication, warrior, tyrant
שׁוּב
shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); ...
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
סוּר
çûwr
to turn off (literal or figurative)
Key Terms in This Verse
שׁוּב shûwb
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
Study H7725 →שָׁחַת shâchath
to decay, i.e. (causatively) ruin (literally or figuratively)
Study H7843 →רֹאשׁ rôʼsh
the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
Study H7218 →Cross References
But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause.
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
For, lo, they lie in wait for my soul: the mighty are gathered against me; not for my transgression, nor for my sin, O LORD.
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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