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Psalm 140

Psa. 140:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Grant
nathan (Hebrew #5414)
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
KJV usage: add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, X avenge, X be ((healed)), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, + cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, X doubtless, X without fail, fasten, frame, X get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), X have, X indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), + lie, lift up, make, + O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, X pull , put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), + sing, + slander, strike, (sub-)mit, suffer, X surely, X take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, + weep, + willingly, + withdraw, + would (to) God, yield.
Pronounce: naw-than'
Origin: a primitive root
not, 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
, the desires
ma'avay (Hebrew #3970)
a desire
KJV usage: desire.
Pronounce: mah-av-ah'ee
Origin: from 183
of the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
: further
puwq (Hebrew #6329)
to issue, i.e. furnish; causatively, to secure; figuratively, to succeed
KJV usage: afford, draw out, further, get, obtain.
Pronounce: pook
Origin: a primitive root (identical with 6328 through the idea of dropping out; compare 5312)
not his wicked device
zamam (Hebrew #2162)
a plot
KJV usage: wicked device.
Pronounce: zaw-mawm'
Origin: from 2161
; δlest they exalt
ruwm (Hebrew #7311)
to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, (X a-)loud, mount up, offer (up), + presumptuously, (be) promote(-ion), proud, set up, tall(-er), take (away, off, up), breed worms.
Pronounce: room
Origin: a primitive root
themselves. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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or, let them not be exalted.

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Cross References

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Grant not.
Psa. 27:12• 12Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. (Psa. 27:12)
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Psa. 94:20‑21• 20Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
 21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood. (Psa. 94:20‑21)
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2 Sam. 15:31• 31And one told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Lord, I pray thee, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness. (2 Sam. 15:31)
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Job 5:12‑13• 12He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.
 13He taketh the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong. (Job 5:12‑13)
lest they exalt themselves.
or, let them not be exalted.
Deut. 32:27• 27Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the Lord hath not done all this. (Deut. 32:27)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Grant not, O Jehovah, the desire of the wicked; further not his device: they would exalt themselves. Selah.