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Psalm 139

Psa. 139:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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If I should count
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
them, they are more in number
rabah (Hebrew #7235)
to increase (in whatever respect)
KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (X -antly), + archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, X continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, X -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), X process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Pronounce: raw-baw'
Origin: a primitive root
than the sand
chowl (Hebrew #2344)
sand (as round or whirling particles)
KJV usage: sand.
Pronounce: khole
Origin: from 2342
: when I awake
quwts (Hebrew #6974)
to awake (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: arise, (be) (a-)wake, watch.
Pronounce: koots
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6972 through the idea of abruptness in starting up from sleep (compare 3364))
, I am still
`owd (Hebrew #5750)
from 5749; properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
KJV usage: again, X all life long, at all, besides, but, else, further(-more), henceforth, (any) longer, (any) more(-over), X once, since, (be) still, when, (good, the) while (having being), (as, because, whether, while) yet (within).
Pronounce: ode
Origin: or rod {ode}
with thee.

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Ministry on This Verse

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they are more.
Psa. 40:12• 12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I cannot see; they are more than the hairs of my head: and my heart hath failed me. (Psa. 40:12)
when I awake.
Psa. 139:3• 3Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways; (Psa. 139:3)
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Psa. 3:5• 5I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth me. (Psa. 3:5)
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Psa. 16:8‑11• 8I have set Jehovah continually before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
 9Therefore my heart rejoiceth, and my glory exulteth; my flesh moreover shall dwell in hope.
 10For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.
 11Thou wilt make known to me the path of life: thy countenance is fulness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore. (Psa. 16:8‑11)
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Psa. 17:15• 15As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness. (Psa. 17:15)
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Psa. 63:6‑7• 6When I remember thee upon my bed, I meditate on thee in the night-watches:
 7For thou hast been my help, and in the shadow of thy wings will I sing for joy. (Psa. 63:6‑7)
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Isa. 26:19• 19Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead. (Isa. 26:19)
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Dan. 12:2• 2And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame, to everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2)
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1 Thess. 5:10• 10who has died for us, that whether we may be watching or sleep, we may live together with him. (1 Thess. 5:10)
• They are precious and beyond comprehension. God is not only for him, but he is ever with God, the object of His unceasing care. (“Psalms 139” by H. Smith)
• Here it is man as man, so that the earth out of which he was fashioned at first is as the womb out of which we were born. God has formed us, be it in the womb of dust or of our mother, the place where we were nothing, before we were. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 139-143” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If I would count them, they are more in number than the sand. When I awake, I am still with thee.