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Psalm 139

Psa. 139:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For there is not a word
millah (Hebrew #4405)
a word; collectively, a discourse; figuratively, a topic
KJV usage: + answer, by-word, matter, any thing (what) to say, to speak(-ing), speak, talking, word.
Pronounce: mil-law'
Origin: from 4448 (plural masculine as if from milleh {mil-leh'}
in my tongue
lashown (Hebrew #3956)
also (in plural) feminine lshonah {lesh-o-naw'}; from 3960; the tongue (of man or animals), used literally (as the instrument of licking, eating, or speech), and figuratively (speech, an ingot, a fork of flame, a cove of water)
KJV usage: + babbler,bay, + evil speaker, language, talker, tongue, wedge.
Pronounce: law-shone'
Origin: or lashon {law-shone'}
, but, lo, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, thoui knowest
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
it altogether.

Cross References

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there is not.
Psa. 19:14• 14Let the words of my mouth{HR}And the meditation of my heart be acceptable before thee,{HR}O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer. (Psa. 19:14)
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Job 8:2• 2How long wilt thou recite these [things],{HR}And the words of thy mouth [be] a strong wind? (Job 8:2)
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Job 38:2• 2Who [is] this darkening counsel by words without knowledge? (Job 38:2)
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Job 42:3,6‑8• 3Who [is] this darkening counsel without knowledge?{HR}Therefore I declared what I understood not,{HR}Things too wonderful for me, that I knew not.
6Therefore do I loathe [myself],{HR}And repent in dust and ashes.
7And it came to pass that, after Jehovah spake these words to Job, Jehovah said to Eliphaz the Temanite, Mine anger is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, for ye have not spoken to me rightly as my servant Job.
8And now take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go unto my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and Job, my servant, shall pray for you — for surely his face I accept — that I may not deal with you [after your] folly, for ye have not spoken to me rightly as my servant Job.
(Job 42:3,6‑8)
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Zeph. 1:12• 12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil. (Zeph. 1:12)
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Mal. 3:13‑16• 13Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?
15And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16Then they that feared Jehovah spake often one to another: and Jehovah hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.
(Mal. 3:13‑16)
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Matt. 12:35‑37• 35The good man out of the good treasure brings forth good things; and the wicked man out of the wicked treasure brings forth wicked things.
36But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:
37for by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
(Matt. 12:35‑37)
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James 1:26• 26If anyone thinks he is religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this [man's] religion is vain. (James 1:26)
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James 3:2‑10• 2For in many things we all offend. If anyone offendeth not in word, he [is] a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also.
3Now if we put the horses' bridles in their mouths, that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also.
4Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are turned about by a very small rudder, where the impulse of the helmsman may purpose.
5So also the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. See how large a wood how little a fire kindleth!
6And the tongue [is] fire, the world of iniquity; the tongue cometh to be in our members that which defileth the whole body, and setteth in a blaze the course of nature, and is set in a blaze by gehenna.
7For every nature of both wild beasts and birds, of both things that creep and things in the sea, is tamed and hath been tamed by the nature of man;
8but the tongue is none of men able to tame; an unsettled evil, full of deadly poison.
9Therewith we bless the Lord and [the] Father, and therewith we curse men that are made according to God's likeness.
10Out of the same mouth cometh blessing and cursing. Not so, my brethren, ought these things to be.
(James 3:2‑10)
thou knowest.

J. N. Darby Translation

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For there is not yetb a word on my tongue, but lo, O Jehovah, thou knowest it altogether.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "ere [even] there is."

W. Kelly Translation

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For there is not a word on my tongue—{HR}Behold, O Jehovah, thou knowest all of it.