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Psalm 31

Psa. 31:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For I have heard
shama` (Hebrew #8085)
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
KJV usage: X attentively, call (gather) together, X carefully, X certainly, consent, consider, be content, declare, X diligently, discern, give ear, (cause to, let, make to) hear(-ken, tell), X indeed, listen, make (a) noise, (be) obedient, obey, perceive, (make a) proclaim(-ation), publish, regard, report, shew (forth), (make a) sound, X surely, tell, understand, whosoever (heareth), witness.
Pronounce: shaw-mah'
Origin: a primitive root
the slander
dibbah (Hebrew #1681)
slander
KJV usage: defaming, evil report, infamy, slander.
Pronounce: dib-baw'
Origin: from 1680 (in the sense of furtive motion)
of 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
: fear
magowr (Hebrew #4032)
from 1481 in the sense of fearing; a fright (objective or subjective)
KJV usage: fear, terror. Compare 4036.
Pronounce: maw-gore'
Origin: or (Lam. 2:22) maguwr {maw-goor'}
was on every side
cabiyb (Hebrew #5439)
from 5437; (as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
KJV usage: (place, round) about, circuit, compass, on every side.
Pronounce: saw-beeb'
Origin: or (feminine) cbiybah {seb-ee-baw'}
: while they took counsel
yacad (Hebrew #3245)
to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle, consult
KJV usage: appoint, take counsel, establish, (lay the, lay for a) found(-ation), instruct, lay, ordain, set, X sure.
Pronounce: yaw-sad'
Origin: a primitive root
together
yachad (Hebrew #3162)
properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
KJV usage: alike, at all (once), both, likewise, only, (al-)together, withal.
Pronounce: yakh'-ad
Origin: from 3161
against me, they devised
zamam (Hebrew #2161)
to plan, usually in a bad sense
KJV usage: consider, devise, imagine, plot, purpose, think (evil).
Pronounce: zaw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root
to take away
laqach (Hebrew #3947)
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
KJV usage: accept, bring, buy, carry away, drawn, fetch, get, infold, X many, mingle, place, receive(-ing), reserve, seize, send for, take (away, -ing, up), use, win.
Pronounce: law-kakh'
Origin: a primitive root
my life
nephesh (Hebrew #5315)
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
KJV usage: any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, X dead(-ly), desire, X (dis-)contented, X fish, ghost, + greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, X jeopardy of) life (X in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-)self, them (your)-selves, + slay, soul, + tablet, they, thing, (X she) will, X would have it.
Pronounce: neh'-fesh
Origin: from 5314
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I have.
Psa. 55:10• 10Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it. (Psa. 55:10)
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Psa. 101:5• 5Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. (Psa. 101:5)
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1 Sam. 22:8‑10• 8That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that showeth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or showeth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?
 9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
 10And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine. (1 Sam. 22:8‑10)
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1 Sam. 24:9• 9And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt? (1 Sam. 24:9)
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Jer. 20:10• 10For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him. (Jer. 20:10)
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Luke 23:1‑2,5• 1And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.
 2And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
 5And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place. (Luke 23:1‑2,5)
fear.
Psa. 56:1‑3• 1<<To the chief Musician upon Jonath-elem-rechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took him in Gath.>> Be merciful unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up; he fighting daily oppresseth me.
 2Mine enemies would daily swallow me up: for they be many that fight against me, O thou most High.
 3What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee. (Psa. 56:1‑3)
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Psa. 57:4• 4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. (Psa. 57:4)
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Jer. 6:25• 25Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side. (Jer. 6:25)
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Jer. 20:3‑4• 3And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.
 4For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. (Jer. 20:3‑4)
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Jer. 20•  (Jer. 20)
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Lam. 2:22• 22Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the Lord's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. (Lam. 2:22)
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1 Sam. 19:10‑17• 10And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.
 11Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain.
 12So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.
 13And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth.
 14And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.
 15And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.
 16And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster.
 17And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee? (1 Sam. 19:10‑17)
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1 Sam. 20:33• 33And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David. (1 Sam. 20:33)
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1 Sam. 23:19‑20• 19Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
 20Now therefore, O king, come down according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him into the king's hand. (1 Sam. 23:19‑20)
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2 Sam. 17:1‑4• 1Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night:
 2And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only:
 3And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.
 4And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel. (2 Sam. 17:1‑4)
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Jer. 11:19• 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. 11:19)
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Matt. 26:3‑4,59• 3Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
 4And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
 59Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death; (Matt. 26:3‑4,59)
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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)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For I have heard the slander of many—terror on every side—when they take counsel together against me: they plot to take away my life.