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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 evils till there is no number have encompassed me;{HR}Mine iniquities have overtaken me, and I have not been able to see;{HR}They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath left me. (Psa. 40:12)
when I awake.
Psa. 139:3• 3Thou siftest my path and my lying down,{HR}And art acquainted with all my ways. (Psa. 139:3)
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Psa. 3:5• 5I have lain down and slept;{HR}I have awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth me. (Psa. 3:5)
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Psa. 16:8‑11• 8I have set Jehovah before me always;{HR}Because [he is] at my right hand,{HR}I shall not be moved.
 9Therefore my heart hath been glad,{HR}And my soul rejoiceth;{HR}My flesh also shall lie down in confidence.
 10For thou wilt not leave my soul in Sheol;{HR}Thou wilt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption.
 11Thou wilt show me the path of life,{HR}Fullness of joys in thy presence,{HR}Pleasures at thy right hand forever. (Psa. 16:8‑11)
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Psa. 17:15• 15As for me, in righteousness I shall behold thy face;{HR}I shall be satisfied in awaking [with] thy likeness. (Psa. 17:15)
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Psa. 63:6‑7• 6When I remember thee upon my bed in night-watches,{HR}I will meditate on thee.
 7For thou hast been a help to me,{HR}And in the shadow of thy wings I will rejoice. (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 and everlasting contempt. (Dan. 12:2)
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1 Thess. 5:10• 10who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we may live together with him. (1 Thess. 5:10)
• 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)
• They are precious and beyond comprehension. God is not only for him, but he is ever with God, the object of His unceasing care. (“Psalm 139” by H. Smith)

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.

W. Kelly Translation

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Would I count them,{HR}They are more than the sand;{HR}I awaked and [am] still with thee.