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Psalm 83

Psa. 83:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They have said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
y, Come
yalak (Hebrew #3212)
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
KJV usage: X again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, + follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, + pursue, cause to run, spread, take away ((-journey)), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, X be weak.
Pronounce: yaw-lak'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 1980)
, and let us cut them off
kachad (Hebrew #3582)
to secrete, by act or word; hence (intensively) to destroy
KJV usage: conceal, cut down (off), desolate, hide.
Pronounce: kaw-khad'
Origin: a primitive root
from being a nation
gowy (Hebrew #1471)
apparently from the same root as 1465 (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
KJV usage: Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Pronounce: go'-ee
Origin: rarely (shortened) goy {go'-ee}
; that the name
shem (Hebrew #8034)
an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
KJV usage: + base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Pronounce: shame
Origin: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064)
of Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
may be no more in remembrance
zakar (Hebrew #2142)
properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember; by implication, to mention; also (as denominative from 2145) to be male
KJV usage: X burn (incense), X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record(-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.
Pronounce: zaw-kar'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ex. 1:10• 10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side also with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land. (Ex. 1:10)
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Esther 3:6‑9• 6But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shown him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that [were] throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
7In the first month, which [is] the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that [is], the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, [to] the twelfth [month], which [is] the month of Adar.
8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws [are] diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it [is] not for the king's profit to suffer them.
9If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the king's business, to bring [it] into the king's treasuries.
(Esther 3:6‑9)
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Prov. 1:12• 12Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,{HR}And whole as those that go down into the pit. (Prov. 1:12)
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Jer. 11:19• 19{i}And I was like a tame lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.{/i} (Jer. 11:19)
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Jer. 31:36• 36If those ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever. (Jer. 31:36)
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Dan. 7:25• 25{i}And he{/i} shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High , and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hands, until a time and times and the dividing of time. (Dan. 7:25)
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Matt. 27:62‑66• 62{i}Now on the morrow, which is after the preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees came together to Pilate,{/i}
63{i}saying, Sir, we have called to mind that that deceiver said when he was still alive, After three days I arise.{/i}
64{i}Command therefore that the sepulchre be secured until the third day, lest his disciples should come and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; and the last error shall be worse than the first.{/i}
65{i}And Pilate said to them, Ye have a watch: go, secure it as well as ye know how.{/i}
66{i}And they went and secured the sepulchre, having sealed the stone, with the watch [besides].{/i}
(Matt. 27:62‑66)
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Acts 4:17• 17But that it be not spread farther among the people, let us threaten them severely to speak to no man longer in this name. (Acts 4:17)
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Acts 9:1‑2• 1But Saul, still breathing threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest
2and asked of him letters unto Damascus to the synagogues; so that, if he found any belonging to the way, both men and women, he might bring [them] bound unto Jerusalem.
(Acts 9:1‑2)
 The intention of the enemy is to cut off Israel as a nation from the face of the earth, with the desire that their very memory may perish. (Psalm 83 by H. Smith)
 It is correlated with two significant victories in Israel’s history (Barak and Gideon, Jud. 4-8) when God intervened for them in the plain of Megiddo (Armageddon). (Book 3. by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They say, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, and let the name of Israel be mentioned no more.

W. Kelly Translation

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They said, Come, and we will cut them off from [being] a nation,{HR}And let the name of Israel be remembered no more.