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Psalm 21

Psa. 21:11 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For they intended
natah (Hebrew #5186)
to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows)
KJV usage: + afternoon, apply, bow (down, - ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), turn (aside, away), wrest, cause to yield.
Pronounce: naw-taw'
Origin: a primitive root
evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
against thee: they imagined
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
a mischievous device
mzimmah (Hebrew #4209)
a plan, usually evil (machination), sometimes good (sagacity)
KJV usage: (wicked) device, discretion, intent, witty invention, lewdness, mischievous (device), thought, wickedly.
Pronounce: mez-im-maw'
Origin: from 2161
, whichm they are not able
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
to perform.

Cross References

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imagined.
Psa. 2:1• 1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? (Psa. 2:1)
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Psa. 10:2• 2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. (Psa. 10:2)
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Psa. 31:13• 13For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life. (Psa. 31:13)
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Psa. 35:20• 20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. (Psa. 35:20)
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Jer. 11:18‑19• 18And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou showedst me their doings.
19But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
(Jer. 11:18‑19)
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Ezek. 11:2• 2Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: (Ezek. 11:2)
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Matt. 21:46• 46But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet. (Matt. 21:46)
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Matt. 26:4‑5• 4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
(Matt. 26:4‑5)
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Acts 5:27‑28• 27And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,
28Saying, Did not we straitly command you that ye should not teach in this name? and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us.
(Acts 5:27‑28)
are not.
Psa. 83:4• 4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. (Psa. 83:4)
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Isa. 7:6‑7• 6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7Thus saith the Lord God, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
(Isa. 7:6‑7)
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Isa. 8:9‑10• 9Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
(Isa. 8:9‑10)
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Matt. 2:8,16• 8And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
(Matt. 2:8,16)
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Matt. 27:63‑64• 63Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.
64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
(Matt. 27:63‑64)
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Matt. 28:2‑6• 2And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.
3His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:
4And for fear of him the keepers did shake, and became as dead men.
5And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.
6He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.
(Matt. 28:2‑6)
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Acts 4:17‑18• 17But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
18And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.
(Acts 4:17‑18)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For they intendeda evil against thee; they imagined a mischievous device, which they could not execute.

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "spread out," as "extend," Isa. 66. 12.