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Psalm 27

Psa. 27:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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When the wicked
ra`a` (Hebrew #7489)
properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e. bad (physically, socially or morally)
KJV usage: afflict, associate selves (by mistake for 7462), break (down, in pieces), + displease, (be, bring, do) evil (doer, entreat, man), show self friendly (by mistake for 7462), do harm, (do) hurt, (behave self, deal) ill, X indeed, do mischief, punish, still, vex, (do) wicked (doer, -ly), be (deal, do) worse.
Pronounce: raw-ah'
Origin: a primitive root
, even mine enemies
tsar (Hebrew #6862)
from 6887; narrow; (as a noun) a tight place (usually figuratively, i.e. trouble); also a pebble (as in 6864); (transitive) an opponent (as crowding)
KJV usage: adversary, afflicted(-tion), anguish, close, distress, enemy, flint, foe, narrow, small, sorrow, strait, tribulation, trouble.
Pronounce: tsar
Origin: or tsar {tsawr}
and my foes
'oyeb (Hebrew #341)
active participle of 340; hating; an adversary
KJV usage: enemy, foe.
Pronounce: o-yabe'
Origin: or (fully) owyeb {o-yabe'}
, βcame
qarab (Hebrew #7126)
to approach (causatively, bring near) for whatever purpose
KJV usage: (cause to) approach, (cause to) bring (forth, near), (cause to) come (near, nigh), (cause to) draw near (nigh), go (near), be at hand, join, be near, offer, present, produce, make ready, stand, take.
Pronounce: kaw-rab'
Origin: a primitive root
upon me to eat up
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
my flesh
basar (Hebrew #1320)
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphem.) the pudenda of a man
KJV usage: body, (fat, lean) flesh(-ed), kin, (man-)kind, + nakedness, self, skin.
Pronounce: baw-sawr'
Origin: from 1319
, they stumbled
kashal (Hebrew #3782)
to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
KJV usage: bereave (from the margin), cast down, be decayed, (cause to) fail, (cause, make to) fall (down, -ing), feeble, be (the) ruin(-ed, of), (be) overthrown, (cause to) stumble, X utterly, be weak.
Pronounce: kaw-shal'
Origin: a primitive root
and fell
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
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approached against.

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Ministry on This Verse

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wicked.
Psa. 3:7• 7Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked. (Psa. 3:7)
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Psa. 18:4• 4The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid. (Psa. 18:4)
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Psa. 22:16• 16For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet. (Psa. 22:16)
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Psa. 62:3‑4• 3How long will ye assail a man; will ye seek, all of you, to break him down as a bowing wall or a tottering fence?
 4They only consult to thrust him down from his excellency; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but in their inward part they curse. Selah. (Psa. 62:3‑4)
came upon.
Heb. approached against.
to.
Psa. 14:4• 4Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? They call not upon Jehovah. (Psa. 14:4)
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Psa. 53:4• 4Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, eating up my people as they eat bread? they call not upon God. (Psa. 53:4)
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Job 19:22• 22Why do ye persecute me as *God, and are not satisfied with my flesh? (Job 19:22)
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Job 31:31• 31If the men of my tent said not, Who shall find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?-- (Job 31:31)
they.
Psa. 18:38‑42• 38I crushed them, and they were not able to rise: they fell under my feet.
 39And thou girdedst me with strength to battle; thou didst subdue under me those that rose up against me.
 40And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
 41They cried, and there was none to save;--unto Jehovah, and he answered them not.
 42And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets. (Psa. 18:38‑42)
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Psa. 118:12• 12They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them. (Psa. 118:12)
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Isa. 8:15• 15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken. (Isa. 8:15)
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John 18:3‑6• 3Judas therefore, having got the band, and officers of the chief priests and Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons.
 4Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?
 5They answered him, Jesus the Nazaraean. Jesus says to them, I am he. And Judas also, who delivered him up, stood with them.
 6When therefore he said to them, I am he, they went away backward and fell to the ground. (John 18:3‑6)
• {v.2} The believer is confident in the presence of his enemies, whether they came as individuals attacking the soul like a beast without conscience; {v.3} whether they come as “an host;” or whether the attack is prolonged, as in “war.” (“Psalms 27” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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When evil-doers, mine adversaries and mine enemiesf, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

JND Translation Notes

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See Notes, Ps. 8.2.