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Psalm 38

Psa. 38:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They also that seek
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
after 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
lay snares
naqash (Hebrew #5367)
to entrap (with a noose), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: catch (lay a) snare.
Pronounce: naw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
for me: and they that seek
darash (Hebrew #1875)
properly, to tread or frequent; usually to follow (for pursuit or search); by implication, to seek or ask; specifically to worship
KJV usage: ask, X at all, care for, X diligently, inquire, make inquisition, (necro-)mancer, question, require, search, seek (for, out), X surely.
Pronounce: daw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
my hurt
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
speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
mischievous things
havvah (Hebrew #1942)
desire; also ruin
KJV usage: calamity, iniquity, mischief, mischievous (thing), naughtiness, naughty, noisome, perverse thing, substance, very wickedness.
Pronounce: hav-vaw'
Origin: from 1933 (in the sense of eagerly coveting and rushing upon; by implication, of falling)
, and imagine
hagah (Hebrew #1897)
to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder
KJV usage: imagine, meditate, mourn, mutter, roar, X sore, speak, study, talk, utter.
Pronounce: daw-gaw'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1901)
deceits
mirmah (Hebrew #4820)
fraud
KJV usage: craft, deceit(-ful, -fully), false, feigned, guile, subtilly, treachery.
Pronounce: meer-maw'
Origin: from 7411 in the sense of deceiving
all the day
yowm (Hebrew #3117)
a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)
KJV usage: age, + always, + chronicals, continually(-ance), daily, ((birth-), each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), + elder, X end, + evening, + (for) ever(-lasting, -more), X full, life, as (so) long as (... live), (even) now, + old, + outlived, + perpetually, presently, + remaineth, X required, season, X since, space, then, (process of) time, + as at other times, + in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while (that), X whole (+ age), (full) year(-ly), + younger.
Pronounce: yome
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be hot
long.

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Ministry on This Verse

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lay snares.
Psa. 10:9• 9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net. (Psa. 10:9)
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Psa. 64:2‑5• 2Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity:
 3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
 4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
 5They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them? (Psa. 64:2‑5)
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Psa. 119:110• 110The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. (Psa. 119:110)
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Psa. 140:5• 5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah. (Psa. 140:5)
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Psa. 141:9• 9Keep me from the snares which they have laid for me, and the gins of the workers of iniquity. (Psa. 141:9)
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2 Sam. 17:1‑3• 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. (2 Sam. 17:1‑3)
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Luke 20:19‑20• 19And the chief priests and the scribes the same hour sought to lay hands on him; and they feared the people: for they perceived that he had spoken this parable against them.
 20And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor. (Luke 20:19‑20)
speak.
Psa. 35:20• 20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land. (Psa. 35:20)
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Psa. 62:3‑4• 3How long will ye imagine mischief against a man? ye shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence.
 4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. (Psa. 62:3‑4)
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2 Sam. 16:7‑8• 7And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:
 8The Lord hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned; and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son: and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief, because thou art a bloody man. (2 Sam. 16:7‑8)
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Luke 20:21‑22• 21And they asked him, saying, Master, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, neither acceptest thou the person of any, but teachest the way of God truly:
 22Is it lawful for us to give tribute unto Caesar, or no? (Luke 20:21‑22)
• And though Jehovah used the malice of the wicked as a rod, it was not the evil which the wicked hated in the saints, but their connection with and owning the Lord {v.20}. Yet the judgment was righteous. This will be the true history of the remnant when, under the terrible chastisement of Jehovah, they earnestly turn to what is right. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 37-39” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they that seek after my life lay snares for me; and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and meditatei deceits all the day long.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "talk."