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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 from a pit of noise,{HR}From the miry clay, and set my feet on a rock;{HR}He fixed my steps. (Psa. 40:2)
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Psa. 86:13• 13For thy mercy [is] great unto me,{HR}And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol. (Psa. 86:13)
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Deut. 32:22• 22{i}For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:22)
darkness.
Psa. 143:3• 3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul,{HR}He hath crushed to the earth my life;{HR}He hath made me dwell in dark places,{HR}Like those long dead. (Psa. 143:3)
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Prov. 4:19• 19The way of the wicked [is] as darkness:{HR}They know not at what they stumble. (Prov. 4:19)
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Lam. 3:2• 2He hath led me and brought me into darkness, but not into light. (Lam. 3:2)
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John 12:46• 46I am come a light into the world, that every one that believeth on me may not abide in darkness. (John 12:46)
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Jude 6,13• 6And angels which kept not their own original estate, but abandoned their proper dwelling, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under gloom unto [the] great day's judgment;
 13raging sea-waves foaming out their own shames; wandering stars for whom hath been reserved the gloom of darkness forever. (Jude 6,13)
deeps.
Psa. 69:15• 15Let not the waterflood overflow me,{HR}And let not the deep swallow me up;{HR}And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me. (Psa. 69:15)
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Psa. 130:1• 1A song of the ascents.{HR}Out of the depths{HR}Do I call on 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."

W. Kelly Translation

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Thou hast laid me in the pit of abysses,{HR}In dark places, in depths.