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Psalm 64

Psa. 64:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They search out
chaphas (Hebrew #2664)
to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask
KJV usage: change, (make) diligent (search), disquise self, hide, search (for, out).
Pronounce: khaw-fas'
Origin: a primitive root
iniquities
`evel (Hebrew #5766)
and (feminine) lavlah {av-law'}; or owlah {o-law'}; or .olah {o-law'}; from 5765; (moral) evil
KJV usage: iniquity, perverseness, unjust(-ly), unrighteousness(-ly); wicked(-ness).
Pronounce: eh'-vel
Origin: or lavel {aw'-vel}
; τthey accomplish
tamam (Hebrew #8552)
to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, cease, be clean (pass-)ed, consume, have done, (come to an, have an, make an) end, fail, come to the full, be all gone, X be all here, be (make) perfect, be spent, sum, be (shew self) upright, be wasted, whole.
Pronounce: taw-mam'
Origin: a primitive root
φa diligent
chaphas (Hebrew #2664)
to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask
KJV usage: change, (make) diligent (search), disquise self, hide, search (for, out).
Pronounce: khaw-fas'
Origin: a primitive root
search
chephes (Hebrew #2665)
something covert, i.e. a trick
KJV usage: search.
Pronounce: khay'-fes
Origin: from 2664
: both the inward
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
thought of every one
'iysh (Hebrew #376)
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
KJV usage: also, another, any (man), a certain, + champion, consent, each, every (one), fellow, (foot-, husband-)man, (good-, great, mighty) man, he, high (degree), him (that is), husband, man(-kind), + none, one, people, person, + steward, what (man) soever, whoso(-ever), worthy. Compare 802.
Pronounce: eesh
Origin: contracted for 582 (or perhaps rather from an unused root meaning to be extant)
of them, and the heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
, is deep
`amoq (Hebrew #6013)
deep (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: (X exceeding) deep (thing).
Pronounce: aw-moke'
Origin: from 6009
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or, we are consumed by that which they have throughly searched.
φ
a search searched.

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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 35:11• 11Unrighteous witnesses rise up; they lay to my charge things which I know not. (Psa. 35:11)
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1 Sam. 22:9• 9Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. (1 Sam. 22:9)
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1 Sam. 24:9• 9And David said to Saul, Why dost thou listen to words of men, saying, Behold, David seeks thy hurt? (1 Sam. 24:9)
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1 Sam. 25:10• 10And Nabal answered David's servants and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master. (1 Sam. 25:10)
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Dan. 6:4‑5• 4Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find a pretext against Daniel with respect to the kingdom; but they could not find any pretext or fault; inasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.
 5Then said these men, We shall not find any pretext against this Daniel, unless we find it against him touching the law of his God. (Dan. 6:4‑5)
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Matt. 26:59• 59And the chief priests and the elders and the whole sanhedrim sought false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death. (Matt. 26:59)
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John 18:29‑30• 29Pilate therefore went out to them and said, What accusation do ye bring against this man?
 30They answered and said to him, If this man were not an evildoer, we should not have delivered him up to thee. (John 18:29‑30)
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John 19:7• 7The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God. (John 19:7)
they accomplish, etc.
or, we are consumed by that which theyhave thoroughly searched.
a diligent search.
Heb. a search searched.
both.
Psa. 5:9• 9For there is no certainty in their mouth; their inward part is perversion, their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. (Psa. 5:9)
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Prov. 20:5• 5Counsel in the heart of man is deep water, and a man of understanding draweth it out. (Prov. 20:5)
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Isa. 29:15• 15Woe unto them that hide deep, far from Jehovah, their counsel! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? (Isa. 29:15)
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Jer. 17:9‑10• 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and incurable; who can know it?
 10I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings. (Jer. 17:9‑10)
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1 Cor. 4:5• 5So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God. (1 Cor. 4:5)
• In their self-confidence they think that none will see the evil plans that, with deep duplicity, they have diligently devised. (“Psalms 64” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one’s inward thought and heart is deep.