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Psalm 38

Psa. 38:19 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But mine enemies
'oyeb (Hebrew #341)
active participle of 340; hating; an adversary
KJV usage: enemy, foe.
Pronounce: o-yabe'
Origin: or (fully) owyeb {o-yabe'}
θare lively
chay (Hebrew #2416)
alive; hence, raw (flesh); fresh (plant, water, year), strong; also (as noun, especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living thing), whether literally or figuratively
KJV usage: + age, alive, appetite, (wild) beast, company, congregation, life(-time), live(-ly), living (creature, thing), maintenance, + merry, multitude, + (be) old, quick, raw, running, springing, troop.
Pronounce: khah'-ee
Origin: from 2421
, and they are strong
`atsam (Hebrew #6105)
to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; denominatively (from 6106) to crunch the bones
KJV usage: break the bones, close, be great, be increased, be (wax) mighty(-ier), be more, shut, be(-come, make) strong(-er).
Pronounce: aw-tsam'
Origin: a primitive root
: and they that hate
sane' (Hebrew #8130)
to hate (personally)
KJV usage: enemy, foe, (be) hate(-ful, -r), odious, X utterly.
Pronounce: saw-nay'
Origin: a primitive root
me wrongfully
sheqer (Hebrew #8267)
an untruth; by implication, a sham (often adverbial)
KJV usage: without a cause, deceit(-ful), false(-hood, -ly), feignedly, liar, + lie, lying, vain (thing), wrongfully.
Pronounce: sheh'-ker
Origin: from 8266
are multiplied
rabab (Hebrew #7231)
properly, to cast together (compare 7241), i.e. increase, especially in number; also (as denominative from 7233) to multiply by the myriad
KJV usage: increase, be many(-ifold), be more, multiply, ten thousands.
Pronounce: raw-bab'
Origin: a primitive root
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being living, are strong.

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 3:1• 1A Psalm of David, on his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son.{HR}Jehovah, how have my persecutors multiplied!{HR}Many are rising up against me. (Psa. 3:1)
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Psa. 25:19• 19Look upon mine enemies, for they are many;{HR}And [with] a hatred of violence they have hated me. (Psa. 25:19)
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Psa. 56:1‑2• 1To the chief musician, as the silent dove of the distant, of David, Michtam ; when the Philistines took him in Gath.{HR}Be gracious unto me, O God; for man would swallow me up;{HR}All the day fighting he oppresseth me.
 2They that lie in wait for me would swallow [me] up all the day,{HR}For many fight proudly against me. (Psa. 56:1‑2)
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Psa. 59:1‑3• 1To the chief musician; Al-tascheth , of David, Michtam; when Saul sent, and they watched the house to put him to death.{HR}Deliver me from mine enemies, my God;{HR}Set me on high from those that rise up against me.
 2Deliver me from doers of iniquity,{HR}And save me from men of blood.
 3For, behold, they lie in wait for my soul;{HR}Strong ones assemble against me:{HR}Not [for] my transgression, not my sin, Jehovah. (Psa. 59:1‑3)
are lively, etc.
Heb. being living are strong.Instead of {chaymin,} "lively" Bp. Lowth would read {chinmon,} "without cause:"--"but mine enemies without cause have strengthened themselves."
As this emendation renders this member of the sentence parallel to the other, it is by no means improbable:
see Ps 35:19; 79:5.they that.
Psa. 35:19• 19Let not mine enemies rejoice over me falsely;{HR}My haters without cause wink the eye. (Psa. 35:19)
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Psa. 69:4• 4More than the hairs of my head [are] those hating me without cause,{HR}Strong my destroyers, mine enemies falsely:{HR}What I took not away, then I restored. (Psa. 69:4)
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Matt. 10:22• 22{i}and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to [the] end, he shall be saved.{/i} (Matt. 10:22)
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John 15:18‑25• 18If the world hateth you, know that me it hath hated before you.
 19If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, on this account doth the world hate you.
 20Call to mind the word which I told you, A bondman is not greater than his lord. If they persecuted me, they will persecute you also; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also;
 21but all these things they will do unto you on account of my name, because they know not him that sent me.
 22If I had not come and spoken to them, they had not had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.
 23He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
 24If I did not among them the works which no other did, they had not had sin; but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.
 25But [it is] that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, they hated me without a cause. (John 15:18‑25)
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Acts 4:25‑28• 25who by [the] Holy Spirit, [by the] mouth of our father David thy servant, didst say, Why did Gentiles rage and peoples meditate vain things?
 26The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Anointed.
 27For of a truth in this city against thy holy servant Jesus whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with Gentiles and peoples of Israel were gathered,
 28to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel foreordained to come to pass. (Acts 4:25‑28)
• His enemies take occasion by his sin to persecute him; not, however, because of his failure, but because he follows that which is good. (“Psalm 38” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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But mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:

W. Kelly Translation

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But mine enemies have been strong in life,{HR}And those who hate me without cause are multiplied.