Psalms 88:6

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the deeps.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּמֵּתִ֗ים חָ֫פְשִׁ֥י כְּמ֤וֹ חֲלָלִ֨ים ׀ שֹׁ֥כְבֵי קֶ֗בֶר אֲשֶׁ֤ר לֹ֣א זְכַרְתָּ֣ם ע֑וֹד וְ֝הֵ֗מָּה מִיָּדְךָ֥ נִגְזָֽרוּ׃

Transliteration

Among-the-mētîm ḥāpšî like ḥălālîm šōkəvê qever who not zəkartām again and-hēmmâ from-yādəkā nigzārû

Grammar Details

*mētîm*: noun, masculine, plural - dead ones
*ḥāpšî*: adjective, masculine, singular - free/set free
*ḥălālîm*: noun, masculine, plural - slain/wounded/pierced
*šōkəvê*: participle, Qal, masculine, plural construct - lying in
*qever*: noun, masculine, singular - grave/tomb
*zəkartām*: verb, Qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - you remember them
*hēmmâ*: pronoun, 3rd person masculine plural - they
*yādəkā*: noun, feminine, singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your hand
*nigzārû*: verb, Niphal perfect, 3rd person plural - they are cut off

Word Meanings

*mētîm*: dead ones/dead people/corpses
*ḥāpšî*: free/set free/released/abandoned
*ḥălālîm*: slain/wounded/pierced/profaned
*šōkəvê*: lying in/resting in
*qever*: grave/tomb/burial place
*nigzārû*: they are cut off/severed/excluded

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Ps 69:15 : 15 Let not the waterflood overwhelm me, Neither let the deep shallow me up; And let not the pit shut its mouth upon me.
Ps 143:3 : 3 For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Ps 86:13 : 13 For great is thy lovingkindness toward me; And thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.
Ps 130:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah.
Deut 32:22 : 22 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And burneth unto the lowest Sheol, And devoureth the earth with its increase, And setteth on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Ps 40:2 : 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
Prov 4:19 : 19 The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.
Lam 3:2 : 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
Lam 3:55 : 55 I called upon thy name, O Jehovah, out of the lowest dungeon.
John 12:46 : 46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me may not abide in the darkness.
Jude 1:6 : 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.

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Ps 88:3-5
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Ps 143:3-4
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79%
3For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; He hath smitten my life down to the ground: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
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5The waters compassed me about, even to the soul; The deep was round about me; The weeds were wrapped about my head.
6I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; The earth with its bars [closed] upon me for ever: Yet hast thou brought up my life from the pit, O Jehovah my God.
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Isa 14:15
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20Thou, who hast showed us many and sore troubles, Wilt quicken us again, And wilt bring us up again from the depths of the earth.
Lam 3:53
74%
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Ps 18:5
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Job 14:13
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18Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, And mine acquaintance into darkness.
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14Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
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Ps 22:15
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Ps 142:3
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