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Psalm 10

Psa. 10:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He sitteth
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
in the lurking places
ma'arab (Hebrew #3993)
an ambuscade
KJV usage: lie in ambush, ambushment, lurking place, lying in wait.
Pronounce: mah-ar-awb'
Origin: from 693
of the villages
chatser (Hebrew #2691)
from 2690 in its original sense; a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
KJV usage: court, tower, village.
Pronounce: khaw-tsare'
Origin: (masculine and feminine)
: in the secret places
mictar (Hebrew #4565)
properly, a concealer, i.e. a covert
KJV usage: secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: mis-tawr'
Origin: from 5641
doth he murder
harag (Hebrew #2026)
to smite with deadly intent
KJV usage: destroy, out of hand, kill, murder(-er), put to (death), make (slaughter), slay(-er), X surely.
Pronounce: haw-rag'
Origin: a primitive root
the innocent
naqiy (Hebrew #5355)
from 5352; innocent
KJV usage: blameless, clean, clear, exempted, free, guiltless, innocent, quit.
Pronounce: naw-kee'
Origin: or naqiyi (Joel {SI 10004}4{/SI} : {SI 10019}19{/SI}; Jonah 1 : 1{SI 10004}4{/SI}), {naw-kee'}
: his eyes
`ayin (Hebrew #5869)
an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
KJV usage: affliction, outward appearance, + before, + think best, colour, conceit, + be content, countenance, + displease, eye((-brow), (-d), -sight), face, + favour, fountain, furrow (from the margin), X him, + humble, knowledge, look, (+ well), X me, open(-ly), + (not) please, presence, + regard, resemblance, sight, X thee, X them, + think, X us, well, X you(-rselves).
Pronounce: ah'-yin
Origin: probably a primitive word
φare privily set
tsaphan (Hebrew #6845)
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
KJV usage: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).
Pronounce: tsaw-fan'
Origin: a primitive root
against the poor
chelka' (Hebrew #2489)
apparently from an unused root probably meaning to be dark or (figuratively) unhappy; a wretch, i.e. unfortunate
KJV usage: poor.
Pronounce: khay-lek-aw'
Origin: or chelkah {khay-lek-aw'}
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hide themselves.

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Innocent,
Murder,
Poor,
Villages

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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sitteth.
1 Sam. 22:18• 18And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall on the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and fell on the priests, and put to death that day eighty-five persons who wore the linen ephod. (1 Sam. 22:18)
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1 Sam. 23:23• 23And see, and ascertain all the lurking-places where he hides himself, and come ye again to me with sure information, that I may go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout the thousands of Judah. (1 Sam. 23:23)
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2 Kings 21:16• 16And Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another; beside his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Jehovah. (2 Kings 21:16)
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Prov. 1:11‑12• 11If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
 12let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; (Prov. 1:11‑12)
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Hab. 3:14• 14Thou didst strike through with his own spears the head of his leaders: They came out as a whirlwind to scatter me, Whose exulting was as to devour the afflicted secretly. (Hab. 3:14)
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Luke 8:1• 1And it came to pass afterwards that *he* went through the country city by city, and village by village, preaching and announcing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God; and the twelve were with him, (Luke 8:1)
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Luke 10:1• 1Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to come. (Luke 10:1)
his eyes.
Psa. 17:11• 11They have now encompassed us in our steps; their eyes have they set, bowing down to the earth. (Psa. 17:11)
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Prov. 6:12‑13• 12A man of Belial, a wicked person, is he that goeth about with a perverse mouth;
 13he winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; (Prov. 6:12‑13)
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Jer. 22:17• 17But thine eyes and thy heart are only on thine extortion, and on the blood of the innocent, to shed it, and on oppression and on violence, to do it. (Jer. 22:17)
are privily set.
Heb. hide themselves.
• His acts are marked by craft, behind which there lurks the violence of a beast. His victims are the godly―the innocent and the poor. (vv. 8-10). (“Psalms 10” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He sitteth in the lurking-places of the villages; in the secret places doth he slay the innocent: his eyes watch for the wretched.