Psalms 22:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Save me from the lion's mouth; Yea, from the horns of the wild-oxen thou hast answered me.

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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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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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.
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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

2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
Num 23:22 : 22 God bringeth them forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox.
Deut 33:17 : 17 The firstling of his herd, majesty is his; And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox: With them he shall push the peoples all of them, [even] the ends of the earth: And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
Job 39:9-9 : 9 Will the wild-ox be content to serve thee? Or will he abide by thy crib? 10 Canst thou bind the wild-ox with his band in the furrow? Or will he harrow the valleys after thee?
Isa 34:7 : 7 And the wild-oxen shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls: and their land shall be drunken with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.
Luke 22:53 : 53 When I was daily {G2596} with you in the temple, ye stretched not forth your hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
John 8:59 : 59 They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
John 14:30 : 30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world cometh: and he hath {G3756} nothing in me;
Acts 4:27 : 27 for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,
Acts 5:30-32 : 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew, hanging him on a tree. 31 Him did God exalt with his right hand [to be] a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance to Israel, and remission of sins. 32 And we are {G846} witnesses of these things; and [so] [is] the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.
1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: {G3754} your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

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