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Psalm 37

Psa. 37:36 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Yet he passed away
`abar (Hebrew #5674)
to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in copulation)
KJV usage: alienate, alter, X at all, beyond, bring (over, through), carry over, (over-)come (on, over), conduct (over), convey over, current, deliver, do away, enter, escape, fail, gender, get over, (make) go (away, beyond, by, forth, his way, in, on, over, through), have away (more), lay, meddle, overrun, make partition, (cause to, give, make to, over) pass(-age, along, away, beyond, by, -enger, on, out, over, through), (cause to, make) + proclaim(-amation), perish, provoke to anger, put away, rage, + raiser of taxes, remove, send over, set apart, + shave, cause to (make) sound, X speedily, X sweet smelling, take (away), (make to) transgress(-or), translate, turn away, (way-)faring man, be wrath.
Pronounce: aw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought
baqash (Hebrew #1245)
to search out (by any method, specifically in worship or prayer); by implication, to strive after
KJV usage: ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire, get, make inquisition, procure, (make) request, require, seek (for).
Pronounce: baw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
him, but he could not be found
matsa' (Hebrew #4672)
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
KJV usage: + be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Pronounce: maw-tsaw'
Origin: a primitive root
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Cross References

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Psa. 37:10• 10And yet a little and the wicked [man] is not,{HR}And thou considerest his place,{HR}And he is no more. (Psa. 37:10)
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Ex. 15:9‑10,19• 9{i}The enemy said, I will pursue,{HR}I will overtake, I will divide the spoil;{HR}My soul shall be sated upon them;{HR}I will unsheath my sword, my hand shall dispossess them.{HR}{/i}
10{i}Thou didst blow with thy breath, the sea covered them;{HR}They sank as lead in the mighty waters.{HR}{/i}
19{i}For the horse of Pharaoh, with his chariots and with his horsemen, came into the sea, and Jehovah brought again the waters of the sea upon them; and the children of Israel went on dry ground through the midst of the sea.{/i}
(Ex. 15:9‑10,19)
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Job 20:5‑29• 5From near [is] the triumphing of the wicked,{HR}And the joy of the ungodly for a moment.
6Though his height mount to the heavens,{HR}And his head reach the cloud,
7Like his dung he perisheth forever;{HR}They that saw him shall say, Where [is] he?
8Like a dream shall he fly away, and not be found,{HR}And he shall be scared away like a vision of the night.
9The eye scanned him, [but] not again;{HR}And his place beholdeth him no more.
10His children shall seek to please the poor,{HR}And his hands give back his wealth.
11His bones were full of youthful vigour,{HR}Which will lie with him in the dust.
12Though evil maketh sweet in his mouth —{HR}He hideth it under his tongue,
13He is sparing of it, and will not let it go,{HR}And retaineth it in the midst of his palate —
14His food is changed in his bowels,{HR}The poison of asps is within him.
15Wealth hath he swallowed, and shall disgorge it:{HR}God will eject it again out of his belly.
16He shall suck the poison of asps:{HR}The tongue of the viper shall slay him.
17He shall not gaze on rivulets,{HR}Flowings of streams of honey and butter.
18What he laboured for, he shall restore, and not swallow.{HR}As the property his exchange, and he rejoiceth not,
19For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;
20For he knew no rest in his belly;{HR}He shall not escape with his desirable thing,
21There is no remnant of his eating.{HR}Therefore his prosperity endureth not.
22In the fullness of his superfluity he is straitened,{HR}Every hand of a wretch shall be upon him.
23That it may be to the filling of his belly,{HR}He shall send against him the burning of his anger,{HR}And rain upon him with his food.
24He fleeth from a weapon of iron,{HR}A bow of copper pierceth him through;
25It is drawn, and it cometh out of the body,{HR}And the glittering sword proceedeth out of his gall:{HR}Upon him [are] terrors.
26All darkness [is] hid for his treasures,{HR}A fire not blown consumeth him;{HR}It shall fare ill with what is left in his tent.
27The heavens reveal his iniquity,{HR}And the earth riseth up against him.
28The increase of his house departeth,{HR}Things that ran away in the day of his anger.
29This [is] the portion of the wicked man from God [Elohim],{HR}And the heritage of his sentence from God [El].
(Job 20:5‑29)
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Isa. 10:16‑19,33‑34• 16Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire.
17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day;
18and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth.
19And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, yea, a child may write them.
33Behold the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, shall lop the boughs with terror; and the high ones of stature [shall be] hewn down, and the haughty [shall be] humbled.
34And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.
(Isa. 10:16‑19,33‑34)
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Acts 12:22‑23• 22And the people shouted thereon, A god's voice and not a man's.
23And immediately an angel of [the] Lord smote him, because he gave not the glory to God; and becoming worm-eaten he expired.
(Acts 12:22‑23)

J. N. Darby Translation

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but he passed awayf, and behold, he was not; and I sought him, but he was not found.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "and one passed by."

W. Kelly Translation

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And he passeth away and behold he is not;{HR}And I seek him, and he is not found.