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Psalm 118

Psa. 118:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ii shall not die
muwth (Hebrew #4191)
causatively, to kill
KJV usage: X at all, X crying, (be) dead (body, man, one), (put to, worthy of) death, destroy(-er), (cause to, be like to, must) die, kill, necro(-mancer), X must needs, slay, X surely, X very suddenly, X in (no) wise.
Pronounce: mooth
Origin: a primitive root: to die (literally or figuratively)
, but live
chayah (Hebrew #2421)
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
KJV usage: keep (leave, make) alive, X certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, (X God) save (alive, life, lives), X surely, be whole.
Pronounce: khaw-yaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2331, 2421)
, and declare
caphar (Hebrew #5608)
properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e. (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e. celebrate
KJV usage: commune, (ac-)count; declare, number, + penknife, reckon, scribe, shew forth, speak, talk, tell (out), writer.
Pronounce: saw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
thek works
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
of the Lord
Yahh (Hebrew #3050)
Jah, the sacred name
KJV usage: Jah, the Lord, most vehement. Compare names in "-iah," "- jah."
Pronounce: yaw
Origin: contraction for 3068, and meaning the same
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Cross References

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die.
Psa. 6:5• 5For in death there is no remembrance of thee; in Sheol who shall give thanks unto thee? (Psa. 6:5)
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Isa. 38:16‑20• 16Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit; and thou hast recovered me, and made me to live.
17Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
19The living, the living, he shall praise thee, as I this day: the father to the children shall make known thy truth.
20Jehovah was purposed to save me.--And we will play upon my stringed instruments all the days of our life, in the house of Jehovah.
(Isa. 38:16‑20)
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Hab. 1:12• 12--Art thou not from everlasting, Jehovah my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast appointed him for correction. (Hab. 1:12)
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John 11:4• 4But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified by it. (John 11:4)
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Rom. 14:7‑9• 7For none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.
8For both if we should live, it is to the Lord we live; and if we should die, it is to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's.
9For to this end Christ has died and lived again, that he might rule over both dead and living.
(Rom. 14:7‑9)
declare.

J. N. Darby Translation

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I shall not die, but live, and declare the works of Jah.