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Psalm 58

Psa. 58:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Theirv poison
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
is φlike
dmuwth (Hebrew #1823)
resemblance; concretely, model, shape; adverbially, like
KJV usage: fashion, like (-ness, as), manner, similitude.
Pronounce: dem-ooth'
Origin: from 1819
the poison
chemah (Hebrew #2534)
from 3179; heat; figuratively, anger, poison (from its fever)
KJV usage: anger, bottles, hot displeasure, furious(-ly, -ry), heat, indignation, poison, rage, wrath(- ful). See 2529.
Pronounce: khay-maw'
Origin: or (Dan. 11:44) chemaC {khay-maw'}
of a serpent
nachash (Hebrew #5175)
a snake (from its hiss)
KJV usage: serpent.
Pronounce: naw-khawsh'
Origin: from 5172
: they are like the deaf
cheresh (Hebrew #2795)
deaf (whether literally or spir.)
KJV usage: deaf.
Pronounce: khay-rashe'
Origin: from 2790
ψadder
pethen (Hebrew #6620)
an asp (from its contortions)
KJV usage: adder.
Pronounce: peh'-then
Origin: from an unused root meaning to twist
that stoppeth
'atam (Hebrew #331)
to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs)
KJV usage: narrow, shut, stop.
Pronounce: aw-tam'
Origin: a primitive root
her ear
'ozen (Hebrew #241)
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
KJV usage: + advertise, audience, + displease, ear, hearing, + show.
Pronounce: o'-zen
Origin: from 238
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Rom. 3:13• 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Rom. 3:13)
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according to the likeness of.
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or, asp.

More on:

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Adder,
Poison,
Serpent

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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poison.
Psa. 140:3• 3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. (Psa. 140:3)
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Eccl. 10:11• 11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. (Eccl. 10:11)
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Rom. 3:13• 13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Rom. 3:13)
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James 3:8• 8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. (James 3:8)
like.
Heb. according to the likeness of.
serpent.
Matt. 3:7• 7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? (Matt. 3:7)
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Matt. 23:33• 33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? (Matt. 23:33)
the deaf.
Jer. 8:17• 17For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. (Jer. 8:17)
adder or asp.{Pethen,} is no doubt the {boeten} of the Arabians, which M. Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its bite almost instant death.
It is the aspic of the ancients, and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common people call it [kouphe,] deaf.
Job 20:14,16• 14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. (Job 20:14,16)
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Isa. 11:8• 8And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice' den. (Isa. 11:8)
• {v.4-5} spreading the poison of error. Moreover they are deaf to every appeal of grace, however attractively and wisely that grace is presented. Thus the sons of men seal their doom and prove themselves ripe for judgment. (“Psalms 58” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear;