Psalms 26:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שָׂ֭נֵאתִי קְהַ֣ל מְרֵעִ֑ים וְעִם־רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים לֹ֣א אֵשֵֽׁב׃

Transliteration

Śānêṯî qəhal mərêʿîm and-with-rəšāʿîm not ʾēšēḇ.

Grammar Details

*Śānêṯî*: qal perfect 1st person singular - I have hated
*qəhal*: construct noun - assembly/congregation/gathering
*mərêʿîm*: hiphil participle masculine plural - evildoers
*rəšāʿîm*: masculine plural adjective - wicked ones
*ʾēšēḇ*: qal imperfect 1st person singular - I will sit/dwell

Word Meanings

*Śānêṯî*: I have hated/I have detested
*qəhal* *mərêʿîm*: assembly of evildoers/congregation of wrongdoers
*mərêʿîm*: evildoers/wrongdoers/malefactors
*rəšāʿîm*: wicked ones/ungodly ones/evil ones
*ʾēšēḇ*: I will sit/I will dwell/I will associate

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 31:6 : 6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.
Ps 139:21-22 : 21 Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? 22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
Ps 101:3-8 : 3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. 4 A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person. 5 Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer. 6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me. 7 He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight. 8 I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the LORD.
Ps 1:1 : 1 Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Matt 9:11-12 : 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? 12 But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

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