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Psalm 22

Psa. 22:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Many
rab (Hebrew #7227)
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), ((ship-))master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Pronounce: rab
Origin: by contracted from 7231
bulls
par (Hebrew #6499)
from 6565; a bullock (apparently as breaking forth in wild strength, or perhaps as dividing the hoof)
KJV usage: (+ young) bull(-ock), calf, ox.
Pronounce: par
Origin: or par {pawr}
have compassed
cabab (Hebrew #5437)
to revolve, surround, or border; used in various applications, literally and figuratively (as follows)
KJV usage: bring, cast, fetch, lead, make, walk, X whirl, X round about, be about on every side, apply, avoid, beset (about), besiege, bring again, carry (about), change, cause to come about, X circuit, (fetch a) compass (about, round), drive, environ, X on every side, beset (close, come, compass, go, stand) round about, inclose, remove, return, set, sit down, turn (self) (about, aside, away, back).
Pronounce: saw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
me: strong
'abbiyr (Hebrew #47)
for 46; --angel, bull, chiefest, mighty (one), stout(-hearted), strong (one), valiant.
Pronounce: ab-beer'
bulls of Bashan
Bashan (Hebrew #1316)
Bashan (often with the article), a region East of the Jordan
KJV usage: Bashan.
Pronounce: baw-shawn'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
have beset me round
kathar (Hebrew #3803)
to enclose; hence (in a friendly sense) to crown, (in a hostile one) to besiege; also to wait (as restraining oneself)
KJV usage: beset round, compass about, be crowned inclose round, suffer.
Pronounce: kaw-thar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Bashan,
Bull; Bullock

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Many.
Psa. 68:30• 30Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war. (Psa. 68:30)
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Jer. 50:11• 11Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls; (Jer. 50:11)
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Deut. 32:14‑15• 14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
 15But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. (Deut. 32:14‑15)
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Isa. 34:7• 7And the unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness. (Isa. 34:7)
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Ezek. 39:18• 18Ye shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth, of rams, of lambs, and of goats, of bullocks, all of them fatlings of Bashan. (Ezek. 39:18)
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Amos 4:1‑3• 1Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.
 2The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
 3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith the Lord. (Amos 4:1‑3)
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Matt. 27:1• 1When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: (Matt. 27:1)
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Acts 4:27• 27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, (Acts 4:27)
• Violence, unrestrained and full of rage, surrounded Him—bulls of Bashan—ravening and roaring lions. It was no haughty strength of man which met this. He must meet and feel it in the meekness of His nature, and know the weakness, though never the sin, of human nature, save in bearing it. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 22-24” by J.N. Darby)
• In verse 12 to 15 the deadly hatred of the Jewish nation is in view. (“Psalms 21” by H. Smith)
• Like a bull using its great strength when blinded with passion, so the leaders of the Jewish nation, blind to reason and indifferent to right, with unrestrained violence and rage, used their position of power in deadly opposition to the Lord. (“Psalms 21” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Manyd bulls have encompassed me; Bashan’s strong ones have beset me round.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "Great."