Psalms 44:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲלֹ֣א אֱ֭לֹהִים יַֽחֲקָר־זֹ֑את כִּֽי־ה֥וּא יֹ֝דֵ֗עַ תַּעֲלֻמ֥וֹת לֵֽב׃

Transliteration

Would not ʾĕlōhîm yaḥăqār-zōʾt for-hûʾ yōdēaʿ taʿălumôt lēb

Grammar Details

*ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural (intensive plural) - God
*yaḥăqār*: verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will search out
*zōʾt*: demonstrative pronoun, feminine singular - this
*hûʾ*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine singular - he
*yōdēaʿ*: participle, qal active, masculine singular - knowing
*taʿălumôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - hidden things of
*lēb*: noun, masculine singular - heart

Word Meanings

*ʾĕlōhîm*: God/gods/divine beings
*yaḥăqār*: search out/investigate/examine
*yōdēaʿ*: knowing/understanding/perceiving
*taʿălumôt*: hidden things/secrets/concealed matters

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Rom 8:36 : 36 Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
John 15:21 : 21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.
John 16:2-3 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God. 3 And these things will they do, {G5213} because they have not known the Father, nor me.
1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, {G3754} God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
1 Cor 15:30-31 : 30 {G2532} Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour? 31 I protest by that glorifying in you, brethren, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die {G2596} daily.
Rev 11:3-9 : 3 And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth. 4 These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the Lord of the earth. 5 And if any man desireth to hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies; and if any man shall desire to hurt them, in this manner must he be killed. 6 These have the power to shut the heaven, that it {G5205} rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire. 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that cometh up out of the abyss shall make war with them, and overcome them, and kill them. 8 And their dead bodies [lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also their Lord was crucified. 9 And from among the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations do [men] look upon their dead bodies three days and a half, and {G863} suffer not their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.
Rev 17:6 : 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered with a great wonder.
1 Sam 22:17-19 : 17 And the king said unto the guard that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of Jehovah; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of Jehovah. 18 And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod. 19 And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen and asses and sheep, with the edge of the sword.
1 Kgs 19:10 : 10 And he said, I have been very jealous for Jehovah, the God of hosts; for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword: and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
Ps 44:11 : 11 Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
Ps 79:2-3 : 2 The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be food unto the birds of the heavens, The flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. 3 Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Matt 5:10-12 : 10 Blessed are they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 11 Blessed are ye when [men] shall reproach you, and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets that were before you.

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