Psalms 105:18

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

His feet they hurt with fetters: He was laid in [chains of] iron,

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Formal EquivalenceSource: American Standard VersionBest for: Word studies and original-language research

🎯 Translation Approach

A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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💎 Distinctive Features

Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
Study-focused formatting: Optimized for reference and research rather than casual reading.

✅ Strengths

High fidelity to original languages
Includes Strong's numbers for precise word study
Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

⚠️ Considerations

Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Gen 39:20 : 20 And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
Gen 40:15 : 15 for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Ps 107:10 : 10 Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
Acts 16:24 : 24 who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Ps 105:16-17
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16And he called for a famine upon the land; He brake the whole staff of bread.
17He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant:
Ps 105:19-20
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19Until the time that his word came to pass, The word of Jehovah tried him.
20The king sent and loosed him; Even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.
Ps 107:10
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10Such as sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, Being bound in affliction and iron,
Ezek 19:4
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4The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit; and they brought him with hooks unto the land of Egypt.
Job 36:8
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8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;
Ps 149:8
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8To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;
Gen 39:20
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20And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.
Gen 40:3
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3And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.
Job 33:19
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19He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;
Job 18:8
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8For he is cast into a net by his own feet, And he walketh upon the toils.
Gen 40:15
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15for indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.
Gen 37:28
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28And there passed by Midianites, merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Acts 16:24
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24who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Gen 39:1
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1And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hand of the Ishmaelites, that had brought him down thither.
Job 13:27
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27Thou puttest my feet also in the stocks, And markest all my paths; Thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet:
Job 33:11
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11He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.
Exod 1:13-14
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13And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:
14and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.
Ps 107:16
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16For he hath broken the gates of brass, And cut the bars of iron in sunder.
Ps 81:5-6
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5He appointed it in Joseph for a testimony, When he went out over the land of Egypt, [Where] I heard a language that I knew not.
6I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.
Deut 26:6
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6And the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
Gen 37:36
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36And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, the captain of the guard.
Job 40:18
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18His bones are [as] tubes of brass; His limbs are like bars of iron.
Gen 39:22
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22And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.
Ezek 19:8-9
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8Then the nations set against him on every side from the provinces; and they spread their net over him; he was taken in their pit.
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Dan 2:33
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33its legs of iron, its feet part of iron, and part of clay.
Gen 42:17
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17And he put them all together into ward three days.
2 Chr 33:11
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11Wherefore Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh in chains, and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.
Gen 37:24
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Job 18:10
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10A noose is hid for him in the ground, And a trap for him in the way.
Lam 3:34
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34To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,
Lam 3:7
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7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.
Acts 7:10
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10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Ps 105:23
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23Israel also came into Egypt; And Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
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3The plowers plowed upon my back; They made long their furrows.
Ps 107:14
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14He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.