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Psalm 116

Psa. 116:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The sorrows
chebel (Hebrew #2256)
from 2254; a rope (as twisted), especially a measuring line; by implication, a district or inheritance (as measured); or a noose (as of cords); figuratively, a company (as if tied together); also a throe (especially of parturition); also ruin
KJV usage: band, coast, company, cord, country, destruction, line, lot, pain, pang, portion, region, rope, snare, sorrow, tackling.
Pronounce: kheh'-bel
Origin: or chebel {khay'-bel}
of death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
compassed
'aphaph (Hebrew #661)
to surround
KJV usage: compass.
Pronounce: aw-faf'
Origin: a primitive root
me, anda the pains
metsar (Hebrew #4712)
something tight, i.e. (figuratively) trouble
KJV usage: distress, pain, strait.
Pronounce: may-tsar'
Origin: from 6896
of hell
sh'owl (Hebrew #7585)
from 7592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
KJV usage: grave, hell, pit.
Pronounce: sheh-ole'
Origin: or shol {sheh-ole'}
μgat hold
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
upon me: I found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
trouble
tsarah (Hebrew #6869)
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival
KJV usage: adversary, adversity, affliction, anguish, distress, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsaw-raw'
Origin: feminine of 6862
and sorrow
yagown (Hebrew #3015)
affliction
KJV usage: grief, sorrow.
Pronounce: yaw-gohn'
Origin: from 3013
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Jonah 2:2• 2and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice. (Jonah 2:2)
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found me.

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Death,
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Ministry on This Verse

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sorrows.
Psa. 18:4‑6• 4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
 5The bands of Sheol surrounded me, the cords of death encountered me.
 6In my distress I called upon Jehovah, and I cried out to my God; he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, into his ears. (Psa. 18:4‑6)
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Psa. 88:6‑7• 6Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark places, in the deeps.
 7Thy fury lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah. (Psa. 88:6‑7)
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Jonah 2:2‑3• 2and he said: I cried by reason of my distress unto Jehovah, and he answered me; Out of the belly of Sheol cried I: thou heardest my voice.
 3For thou didst cast me into the depth, into the heart of the seas, And the flood was round about me: All thy breakers and thy billows are gone over me. (Jonah 2:2‑3)
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Mark 14:33‑36• 33And he takes with him Peter and James and John, and he began to be amazed and oppressed in spirit.
 34And he says to them, My soul is full of grief even unto death; abide here and watch.
 35And, going forward a little, he fell upon the earth; and he prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him.
 36And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to thee: take away this cup from me; but not what *I* will, but what *thou* wilt. (Mark 14:33‑36)
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Luke 22:44• 44And being in conflict he prayed more intently. And his sweat became as great drops of blood, falling down upon the earth. (Luke 22:44)
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Heb. 5:7• 7Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up both supplications and entreaties to him who was able to save him out of death, with strong crying and tears; (and having been heard because of his piety;) (Heb. 5:7)
gat hold upon me.
Heb. found me.
I found.
Psa. 32:3‑4• 3When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.
 4For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah. (Psa. 32:3‑4)
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Psa. 38:6• 6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day. (Psa. 38:6)
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Isa. 53:3‑4• 3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom men hide their faces;--despised, and we esteemed him not.
 4Surely *he* hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (Isa. 53:3‑4)
• (vv. 3-6) In the verses that follow the psalmist describes the circumstances which revealed the love of the Lord, and called forth his own love. (“Psalms 116” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The bandsc of death encompassed me, and the anguishd of Sheol took hold ofe me; I found trouble and sorrow:

JND Translation Notes

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As Ps. 18.4,5, according to others "pangs."
d
Lit. "anguishes," "distresses."
e
Or "found."