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Psalm 88

Psa. 88:6 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou hast laid
shiyth (Hebrew #7896)
to place (in a very wide application)
KJV usage: apply, appoint, array, bring, consider, lay (up), let alone, X look, make, mark, put (on), + regard, set, shew, be stayed, X take.
Pronounce: sheeth
Origin: a primitive root
me in the lowest
tachtiy (Hebrew #8482)
lowermost; as noun (feminine plural) the depths (figuratively, a pit, the womb)
KJV usage: low (parts, -er, -er parts, - est), nether (part).
Pronounce: takh-tee'
Origin: from 8478
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)
, in darkness
machshak (Hebrew #4285)
darkness; concretely, a dark place
KJV usage: dark(-ness, place).
Pronounce: makh-shawk'
Origin: from 2821
, in the deeps
mtsowlah (Hebrew #4688)
also mtsuwlah {mets-oo-law'}; or mtsulah {mets-oo-law'}; from the same as 6683; a deep place (of water or mud)
KJV usage: bottom, deep, depth.
Pronounce: mets-o-law'
Origin: or mtsolah {mets-o-law'}
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Darkness,
Pit

Cross References

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lowest.
Psa. 40:2• 2And he brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock; he hath established my goings: (Psa. 40:2)
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Psa. 86:13• 13For great is thy loving-kindness toward me, and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. (Psa. 86:13)
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Deut. 32:22• 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains. (Deut. 32:22)
darkness.
Psa. 143:3• 3For the enemy persecuteth my soul: he hath crushed my life down to the earth; he hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. (Psa. 143:3)
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Prov. 4:19• 19The way of the wicked is as darkness: they know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)
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Lam. 3:2• 2Me hath he led, and brought into darkness, and not into light. (Lam. 3:2)
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John 12:46• 46I am come into the world as light, that every one that believes on me may not abide in darkness; (John 12:46)
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Jude 6,13• 6And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;
 13raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shames; wandering stars, to whom has been reserved the gloom of darkness for eternity. (Jude 6,13)
deeps.
Psa. 69:15• 15Let not the flood of waters overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up; and let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:15)
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Psa. 130:1• 1A Song of degrees. Out of the depths do I call upon thee, Jehovah. (Psa. 130:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in dark placesi, in the deeps.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "in darkness," lit. "darknesses."