Psalms 83:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; That the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

עַֽל־עַ֭מְּךָ יַעֲרִ֣ימוּ ס֑וֹד וְ֝יִתְיָעֲצ֗וּ עַל־צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃

Transliteration

ʿal-ʿammeḵā yaʿărîmû sôd weyityāʿăṣû ʿal-ṣep̄ûnêḵā

Grammar Details

*ʿal-ʿammeḵā*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 2ms suffix - against your people
*yaʿărîmû*: 3mp Hiphil imperfect - they make crafty/cunning
*sôd*: masculine singular noun - secret council/plan
*weyityāʿăṣû*: conjunction + 3mp Hithpael imperfect - and they consult together
*ʿal-ṣep̄ûnêḵā*: preposition + masculine plural passive participle + 2ms suffix - against your hidden/treasured ones

Word Meanings

*ʿāram*: be crafty/shrewd/cunning
*sôd*: secret council/assembly/plan
*yāʿaṣ*: advise/consult/plan together
*ṣāp̄an*: hide/treasure/store up

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Referenced Verses

Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jer 31:36 : 36 If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.
Jer 48:2 : 2 The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee.
Dan 7:25 : 25 And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
Matt 27:62-66 : 62 Now on the morrow, which is [the day] after the Preparation, the chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together unto Pilate, 63 saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest haply his disciples come and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, Ye have a guard: go, make it [as] sure as ye can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, the guard being with them.
Acts 4:17 : 17 But that it spread no further {G1909} among the people, let us {G547} threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.
Acts 9:1-2 : 1 But Saul, yet breathing threatening and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest, 2 and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
Exod 1:10 : 10 come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.
Esth 3:6-9 : 6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai. 7 In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, which is the month Adar. 8 And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from [those of] every people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them. 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those that have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.
Ps 74:8 : 8 They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Prov 1:12 : 12 Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, And whole, as those that go down into the pit;

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

Ps 83:5
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5For they have consulted together with one consent; Against thee do they make a covenant:
Ps 83:2-3
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2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult; And they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
3Thy take crafty counsel against thy people, And consult together against thy hidden ones.
Ps 74:7-8
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7They have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name [by casting it] to the ground.
8They said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Ps 79:7
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7For they have devoured Jacob, And laid waste his habitation.
Deut 9:14
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14let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name from under heaven; and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater than they.
Ps 83:11-12
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73%
11Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb; Yea, all their princes like Zebah and Zalmunna;
12Who said, Let us take to ourselves in possession The habitations of God.
Ps 109:13
72%
13Let his posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Ps 109:15
72%
15Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;
Neh 4:11
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11And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.
Mic 4:11
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11And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.
Ps 83:16-17
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71%
16Fill their faces with confusion, That they may seek thy name, O Jehovah.
17Let them be put to shame and dismayed for ever; Yea, let them be confounded and perish;
Ps 2:2-3
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71%
2The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against Jehovah, and against his anointed, [saying],
3Let us break their bonds asunder, And cast away their cords from us.
Jer 18:18
71%
18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Isa 30:11
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11get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
Deut 32:26
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26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men;
Isa 26:14
71%
14[They are] dead, they shall not live; [they are] deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.
Ps 118:10-11
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10All nations compassed me about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
11They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Exod 1:10
71%
10come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they also join themselves unto our enemies, and fight against us, and get them up out of the land.
Ps 83:9
71%
9Do thou unto them as unto Midian, As to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;
Isa 7:5
70%
5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against thee, saying,
Ps 21:10-11
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10Their fruit wilt thou destroy from the earth, And their seed from among the children of men.
11For they intended evil against thee; They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.
Hos 8:3
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3Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
Isa 8:10
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10Take counsel together, and it shall be brought to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
Ps 69:25
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5They break in pieces thy people, O Jehovah, And afflict thy heritage.
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11Slay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Hos 8:8
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8Israel is swallowed up: now are they among the nations as a vessel wherein none delighteth.
Lam 2:3
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3He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: And he hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
Ps 69:28
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28Let them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
1 Kgs 9:7
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7then will I cut off Israel out of the land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Isa 10:7
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7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few.
Ps 17:11
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11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.
Jer 11:19
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19But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Ps 59:13
69%
13Consume them in wrath, consume them, so that they shall be no more: And let them know that God ruleth in Jacob, Unto the ends of the earth. {H5542}
Jer 48:2
69%
2The praise of Moab is no more; in Heshbon they have devised evil against her: Come, and let us cut her off from being a nation. Thou also, O Madmen, shalt be brought to silence: the sword shall pursue thee.
Lam 4:18
69%
18They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.
2 Sam 21:5
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5And they said unto the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us, [that] we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,
Ps 139:20
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20For they speak against thee wickedly, And thine enemies take [thy name] in vain.
Ps 62:3
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3How long will ye set upon a man, That ye may slay [him], all of you, Like a leaning wall, like a tottering fence?