Psalms 64:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לִיר֣וֹת בַּמִּסְתָּרִ֣ים תָּ֑ם פִּתְאֹ֥ם יֹ֝רֻ֗הוּ וְלֹ֣א יִירָֽאוּ׃

Transliteration

to-yərôt in-the-mistārîm tām pitʾōm yōruhû and-not yîrāʾû

Grammar Details

*yərôt*: infinitive construct verb with prefixed preposition lamed (to) - to shoot
*mistārîm*: masculine plural noun with prefixed preposition bet (in) - hiding places
*tām*: masculine singular adjective/noun - blameless/perfect one
*pitʾōm*: adverb - suddenly
*yōruhû*: imperfect verb, 3rd person plural with 3rd person masculine singular object suffix - they will shoot him
*yîrāʾû*: imperfect verb, 3rd person plural with negative particle - they will not fear

Word Meanings

*tām*: blameless one/perfect one/innocent
*yōruhû*: shoot him/strike him
*yîrāʾû*: fear/be afraid

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 10:11 : 11 He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten; He hideth his face; he will never see it.
Ps 140:5 : 5 The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {H5542}
Prov 1:11-14 : 11 If they say, Come with us, Let us lay wait for blood; Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit; 13 We shall find all precious substance; We shall fill our houses with spoil; 14 Thou shalt cast thy lot among us; We will all have one purse:
Isa 41:6 : 6 They help every one his neighbor; and [every one] saith to his brother, Be of good courage.
Ezek 8:12 : 12 Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the elders of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in his chambers of imagery? for they say, Jehovah seeth us not; Jehovah hath forsaken the land.
Matt 23:15 : 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.
Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then were gathered together the chief priests, and the elders of the people, unto the court of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas; 4 and they took counsel together that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
Rev 11:10 : 10 And they that dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and make merry; and they shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth.
Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, [say they], doth hear?
Ps 94:7 : 7 And they say, Jehovah will not see, Neither will the God of Jacob consider.
Ps 124:7 : 7 Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: The snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Exod 15:9 : 9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
Num 22:6 : 6 Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
1 Sam 23:19-23 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in the strongholds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the desert? 20 Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of thy soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand. 21 And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have had compassion on me. 22 Go, I pray you, make yet more sure, and know and see his place where his haunt is, [and] who hath seen him there; for it is told me that he dealeth very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
Job 22:13 : 13 And thou sayest, What doth God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

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