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Psalm 109

Psa. 109:24 KJV (With Strong’s)

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My knees
berek (Hebrew #1290)
a knee
KJV usage: knee.
Pronounce: beh'-rek
Origin: from 1288
e are weak
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
through fasting
tsowm (Hebrew #6685)
or tsom {tsome}; from from 6684; a fast: --fast(-ing).
Pronounce: tsome
; and my flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
faileth
kachash (Hebrew #3584)
to be untrue, in word (to lie, feign, disown) or deed (to disappoint, fail, cringe)
KJV usage: deceive, deny, dissemble, fail, deal falsely, be found liars, (be-)lie, lying, submit selves.
Pronounce: kaw-khash'
Origin: a primitive root
of fatness
shemen (Hebrew #8081)
grease, especially liquid (as from the olive, often perfumed); figuratively, richness
KJV usage: anointing, X fat (things), X fruitful, oil((-ed)), ointment, olive, + pine.
Pronounce: sheh'-men
Origin: from 8080
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Heb. 12:12• 12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; (Heb. 12:12)

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Fast; Fasting,
Flesh

Cross References

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knees.
Psa. 22:14• 14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. (Psa. 22:14)
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Psa. 35:13‑14• 13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
 14I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. (Psa. 35:13‑14)
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Psa. 69:10• 10When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. (Psa. 69:10)
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Matt. 4:2• 2And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. (Matt. 4:2)
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2 Cor. 11:27• 27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness. (2 Cor. 11:27)
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Heb. 12:12• 12Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; (Heb. 12:12)
my flesh.
Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me: my moisture is turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
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Psa. 38:5‑8• 5My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
 6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
 7For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. (Psa. 38:5‑8)
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Psa. 102:4‑5• 4My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. (Psa. 102:4‑5)
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Job 19:20• 20My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth. (Job 19:20)

J. N. Darby Translation

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My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;