Psalms 31:13

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

נִ֭שְׁכַּחְתִּי כְּמֵ֣ת מִלֵּ֑ב הָ֝יִ֗יתִי כִּכְלִ֥י אֹבֵֽד׃

Transliteration

Niškaktî like-mēt from-lēb; hāyîtî like-kəlî ʾōbēd

Grammar Details

• *Niškaktî*: verb, Niphal perfect 1st person singular - I am forgotten
• *mēt*: adjective, masculine singular - dead person
• *lēb*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition min - from heart/mind
• *hāyîtî*: verb, perfect 1st person singular - I have become
• *kəlî*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition kaph - like a vessel/object
• *ʾōbēd*: verb, Qal participle masculine singular - perishing/broken

Word Meanings

• *Niškaktî*: I am forgotten/neglected/abandoned
• *mēt*: dead person/corpse
• *lēb*: heart/mind/memory
• *kəlî*: vessel/object/utensil
• *ʾōbēd*: perishing/broken/lost

Referenced Verses

• Jer 20:10 : 10 For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Matt 27:1 : 1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Lam 2:22 : 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
• 2 Sam 17:1-4 : 1 Moreover Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Let me now choose out twelve thousand men, and I will arise and pursue after David this night: 2 And I will come upon him while he is weary and weak handed, and will make him afraid: and all the people that are with him shall flee; and I will smite the king only: 3 And I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace. 4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
• Ps 55:10 : 10 Day and night they go about{H8779)} it upon the walls thereof: mischief also and sorrow are in the midst of it.
• Ps 56:1-3 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Jonathelemrechokim, Michtam of David, when the Philistines took{H8800)} him in Gath. Be merciful{H8798)} unto me, O God: for man would swallow me up{H8804)}; he fighting{H8802)} daily oppresseth{H8799)} me. 2 Mine enemies{H8802)} would daily swallow{H8804)} me up: for they be many that fight{H8802)} against me, O thou most High. 3 What time I am afraid{H8799)}, I will trust{H8799)} in thee.
• Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie{H8799)} even among them that are set on fire{H8802)}, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 101:5 : 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.
• Jer 6:25 : 25 Go not forth into the field, nor walk by the way; for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side.
• Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought 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 20:3-4 : 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. 4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.
• Matt 26:3-4 : 3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas, 4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
• Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
• 1 Sam 19:10-17 : 10 And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul's presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night. 11 Saul also sent messengers unto David's house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal David's wife told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to night, to morrow thou shalt be slain. 12 So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped. 13 And Michal took an image, and laid it in the bed, and put a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster, and covered it with a cloth. 14 And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick. 15 And Saul sent the messengers again to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him. 16 And when the messengers were come in, behold, there was an image in the bed, with a pillow of goats' hair for his bolster. 17 And Saul said unto Michal, Why hast thou deceived me so, and sent away mine enemy, that he is escaped? And Michal answered Saul, He said unto me, Let me go; why should I kill thee?
• 1 Sam 20:33 : 33 And Saul cast a javelin at him to smite him: whereby Jonathan knew that it was determined of his father to slay David.
• 1 Sam 22:8-9 : 8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this day? 9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub. 10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
• 1 Sam 23:19-20 : 19 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon? 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 into the king's hand.
• 1 Sam 24:9 : 9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
• Luke 23:1-2 : 1 And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate. 2 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying that he himself is Christ a King.
• Luke 23:5 : 5 And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.