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Psalm 88

Psa. 88:4 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I am counted
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
with them that go down
yarad (Hebrew #3381)
a primitive root; to descend (literally, to go downwards; or conventionally to a lower region, as the shore, a boundary, the enemy, etc.; or figuratively, to fall); causatively, to bring down (in all the above applications): --X abundantly, bring down, carry down, cast down, (cause to) come(-ing) down, fall (down), get down, go(-ing) down(-ward), hang down, X indeed, let down, light (down), put down (off), (cause to, let) run down, sink, subdue, take down.
Pronounce: yaw-rad'
into the 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)
: I am as a man
geber (Hebrew #1397)
properly, a valiant man or warrior; generally, a person simply
KJV usage: every one, man, X mighty.
Pronounce: gheh'-ber
Origin: from 1396
that hath no strength
'eyal (Hebrew #353)
strength
KJV usage: strength.
Pronounce: eh-yawl'
Origin: a variation of 352
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Psa. 28:1• 1A Psalm of David. Unto thee, Jehovah, do I call; my rock, be not silent unto me, lest, if thou keep silence toward me, I become like them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 28:1)
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Psa. 30:9• 9What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to the pit? shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? (Psa. 30:9)
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Psa. 143:7• 7Answer me speedily, O Jehovah; my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, or I shall be like unto them that go down into the pit. (Psa. 143:7)
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Job 17:1• 1My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are mine. (Job 17:1)
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Isa. 38:17‑18• 17Behold, instead of peace I had bitterness upon bitterness; but thou hast in love delivered my soul from the pit of destruction; for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.
18For not Sheol shall praise thee, nor death celebrate thee; they that go down into the pit do not hope for thy truth.
(Isa. 38:17‑18)
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Ezek. 26:20• 20then will I bring thee down, with them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. (Ezek. 26:20)
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Jonah 2:6• 6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The bars of the earth closed upon me for ever: But thou hast brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God. (Jonah 2:6)
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2 Cor. 1:9• 9But we ourselves had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not have our trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead; (2 Cor. 1:9)
as a man.

J. N. Darby Translation

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I am reckoned with them that go down into the pit; I am as a man that hath no strength: