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Psalm 7

Psa. 7:15 KJV (With Strong’s)

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He τmade
karah (Hebrew #3738)
properly, to dig; figuratively, to plot; generally, to bore or open
KJV usage: dig, X make (a banquet), open.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
a pit
bowr (Hebrew #953)
a pit hole (especially one used as a cistern or a prison)
KJV usage: cistern, dungeon, fountain, pit, well.
Pronounce: bore
Origin: from 952 (in the sense of 877)
, and digged
chaphar (Hebrew #2658)
properly, to pry into; by implication, to delve, to explore
KJV usage: dig, paw, search out, seek.
Pronounce: khaw-far'
Origin: a primitive root
it, and ish fallen
naphal (Hebrew #5307)
to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
KJV usage: be accepted, cast (down, self, (lots), out), cease, die, divide (by lot), (let) fail, (cause to, let, make, ready to) fall (away, down, -en, -ing), fell(-ing), fugitive, have (inheritance), inferior, be judged (by mistake for 6419), lay (along), (cause to) lie down, light (down), be (X hast) lost, lying, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, present(-ed, -ing), (make to) rot, slay, smite out, X surely, throw down.
Pronounce: naw-fal'
Origin: a primitive root
into the ditch
shachath (Hebrew #7845)
a pit (especially as a trap); figuratively, destruction
KJV usage: corruption, destruction, ditch, grave, pit.
Pronounce: shakh'-ath
Origin: from 7743
which he made
pa`al (Hebrew #6466)
to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
KJV usage: commit, (evil-) do(-er), make(-r), ordain, work(-er).
Pronounce: paw-al'
Origin: a primitive root
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hath digged a pit.
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Esther 9:25• 25But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (Esther 9:25)
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Eccl. 10:8• 8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him. (Eccl. 10:8)

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Ministry on This Verse

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made.
Heb. hath digged.
Psa. 35:7• 7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul. (Psa. 35:7)
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Psa. 119:85• 85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law. (Psa. 119:85)
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Job 6:27• 27Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and ye dig a pit for your friend. (Job 6:27)
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Jer. 18:20• 20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them. (Jer. 18:20)
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Psa. 9:15‑16• 15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
 16The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah. (Psa. 9:15‑16)
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Psa. 10:2• 2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. (Psa. 10:2)
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Psa. 35:8• 8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall. (Psa. 35:8)
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Psa. 94:13• 13That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked. (Psa. 94:13)
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Psa. 140:9‑10• 9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.
 10Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again. (Psa. 140:9‑10)
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Psa. 141:10• 10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape. (Psa. 141:10)
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Esther 7:10• 10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified. (Esther 7:10)
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Job 4:8• 8Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same. (Job 4:8)
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Prov. 5:22• 22His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. (Prov. 5:22)
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Prov. 26:27• 27Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him. (Prov. 26:27)
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Eccl. 10:8‑9• 8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
 9Whoso removeth stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby. (Eccl. 10:8‑9)
• {v.15-16} In the government of God the one that devises mischief will fall into the pit that he has dug for others. (“Psalms 7” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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He digged a pit, and hollowed it out, and is fallen into the hole that he made.