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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 have the heathen raged,{HR}And do the people meditate a vain thing? (Psa. 2:1)
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Psa. 10:2• 2In the pride of the wicked he doth hotly pursue the poor;{HR}They are taken in the very devices they devised. (Psa. 10:2)
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Psa. 31:13• 13For I have heard the slander of many;{HR}Fear [is] round about when they consult together against me;{HR}They have devised to take my life. (Psa. 31:13)
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Psa. 35:20• 20For they speak not peace,{HR}But they devise deceitful words against the quiet ones of the earth. (Psa. 35:20)
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Jer. 11:18‑19• 18{i}And Jehovah hath given me knowledge, and I know it; then thou showedst me their doings.{/i}
19{i}And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they 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.{/i}
(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• 46{i}And seeking to lay hold of him, they were afraid of the crowds, because they held him for a prophet.{/i} (Matt. 21:46)
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Matt. 26:4‑5• 4{i}and took counsel together in order that they might seize Jesus by subtlety and kill him;{/i}
5{i}but they said, Not in the feast, that there be not a tumult among the people.{/i}
(Matt. 26:4‑5)
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Acts 5:27‑28• 27And having brought they set them in the council; and the high priest asked them,
28saying, We strictly charged you not to teach on this name; and, behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and purpose to bring upon us the blood of this man.
(Acts 5:27‑28)
are not.
Psa. 83:4• 4They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more. (Psa. 83:4)
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Isa. 7:6‑7• 6Let us go up against Judah, and harass it, and make a breach therein for us, and set up a king therein, the son of Tabeal;
7thus saith the Lord Jehovah, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
(Isa. 7:6‑7)
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Isa. 8:9‑10• 9Rage, ye peoples, and ye shall be broken in pieces. And give ear, all ye distant parts of the earth. Gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.
10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak a word, and it shall not stand; for God [is] with us [Immanuel].
(Isa. 8:9‑10)
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Matt. 2:8,16• 8{i}and having sent them to Bethlehem, said, Go, search out accurately concerning the child, and when ye shall have found [him] bring me back word, so that I also may come and do him homage.{/i}
16{i}Then Herod, seeing that he had been mocked by the magi, was greatly enraged; and sent and slew all the boys which [were] in Bethlehem, and in all its borders, from two years and under, according to the time which he had accurately inquired from the magi.{/i}
(Matt. 2:8,16)
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Matt. 27:63‑64• 63{i}saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.{/i}
64{i}Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.{/i}
(Matt. 27:63‑64)
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Matt. 28:2‑6• 2{i}And behold, there was a great earthquake; for an angel of [the] Lord, descending out of heaven, came and rolled away the stone and sat upon it.{/i}
3{i}And his look was as lightning, and his clothing white as snow.{/i}
4{i}And for fear of him the guards trembled and became as dead men.{/i}
5{i}And the angel answering said to the women, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus the crucified one.{/i}
6{i}He is not here, for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay.{/i}
(Matt. 28:2‑6)
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Acts 4:17‑18• 17But that it be not spread farther among the people, let us threaten them severely to speak to no man longer in this name.
18And having called them they charged [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.

W. Kelly Translation

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For they stretched out evil over thee,{HR}They have devised a wicked device; they are not able.