Psalms 31:8

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy: thou hast set my feet in a large room.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

אָגִ֥ילָה וְאֶשְׂמְחָ֗ה בְּחַ֫סְדֶּ֥ךָ אֲשֶׁ֣ר רָ֭אִיתָ אֶת־עָנְיִ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתָּ בְּצָר֥וֹת נַפְשִֽׁי׃

Transliteration

ʾāgîlâ and-ʾeśməḥâ in-ḥasdekā which rāʾîtā ʾet-ʿonyî; yādaʿtā in-ṣārôt napšî

Grammar Details

*ʾāgîlâ*: verb, cohortative 1st person singular - I will rejoice
*ʾeśməḥâ*: verb, cohortative 1st person singular - I will be glad
*ḥasdekā*: noun, masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix and prefixed preposition beth - in your lovingkindness
*rāʾîtā*: verb, perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have seen
*ʿonyî*: noun, masculine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my affliction
*yādaʿtā*: verb, perfect 2nd person masculine singular - you have known
*ṣārôt*: noun, feminine plural with prefixed preposition beth - in distresses
*napšî*: noun, feminine singular with 1st person singular suffix - my soul

Word Meanings

*ʾāgîlâ*: rejoice/be joyful/exult
*ʾeśməḥâ*: be glad/rejoice/be joyful
*ḥasdekā*: your lovingkindness/steadfast love/mercy
*ʿonyî*: my affliction/trouble/misery
*ṣārôt*: distresses/troubles/adversities

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King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Deut 32:30 : 30 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
Job 36:16 : 16 Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.
Ps 4:1 : 1 To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.
Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Ps 88:8 : 8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance{H8794)} far{H8689)} from me; thou hast made{H8804)} me an abomination unto them: I am shut up{H8803)}, and I cannot come forth{H8799)}.
Isa 19:4 : 4 And the Egyptians will I give over into the hand of a cruel lord; and a fierce king shall rule over them, saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
1 Sam 17:46 : 46 This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel.
1 Sam 24:18 : 18 And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the LORD had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
1 Sam 26:8 : 8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee, with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the second time.
Job 16:11 : 11 God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

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