Psalms 64:6

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

They search out{H8799)} iniquities; they accomplish{H8804)} a diligent{H8794)} search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יְחַזְּקוּ־לָ֨מוֹ ׀ דָּ֘בָ֤ר רָ֗ע יְֽ֭סַפְּרוּ לִטְמ֣וֹן מוֹקְשִׁ֑ים אָ֝מְר֗וּ מִ֣י יִרְאֶה־לָּֽמוֹ׃

Transliteration

yəḥazzəqû-to-them dābār rāʿ yəsappərû to-ṭəmôn môqəšîm ʾāmərû who yirʾeh-to-them

Grammar Details

*yəḥazzəqû*: imperfect verb, 3rd person plural with suffix - they strengthen
*dābār*: masculine singular noun - word/thing/matter
*rāʿ*: masculine singular adjective - evil
*yəsappərû*: imperfect verb, 3rd person plural - they tell/recount
*ṭəmôn*: infinitive construct verb with prefixed preposition lamed (to) - to hide
*môqəšîm*: masculine plural noun - snares/traps
*ʾāmərû*: perfect verb, 3rd person plural - they have said
*yirʾeh*: imperfect verb, 3rd person masculine singular with suffix - will see them

Word Meanings

*yəḥazzəqû*: strengthen/encourage/embolden
*dābār rāʿ*: evil matter/evil plan/evil word
*yəsappərû*: tell/recount/narrate/discuss
*môqəšîm*: snares/traps/nets

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Referenced Verses

1 Sam 22:9 : 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.
1 Sam 24:9 : 9 And David said to Saul, Wherefore hearest thou men's words, saying, Behold, David seeketh thy hurt?
1 Sam 25:10 : 10 And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.
Ps 5:9 : 9 For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
Ps 35:11 : 11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge{H8799)} things that I knew{H8804)} not.
Ps 49:11 : 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call{H8804)} their lands after their own names.
Prov 20:5 : 5 Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Isa 29:15 : 15 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
Jer 17:9-9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Dan 6:4-5 : 4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him. 5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
Matt 26:59 : 59 Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
John 18:29-30 : 29 Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee.
John 19:7 : 7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
1 Cor 4:5 : 5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.

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2Hide{H8686)} me from the secret counsel of the wicked{H8688)}; from the insurrection of the workers{H8802)} of iniquity:
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4That they may shoot{H8800)} in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot{H8686)} at him, and fear{H8799)} not.
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7But God shall shoot{H8686)} at them with an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.
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9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
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23Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
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2Yea, in heart ye work{H8799)} wickedness; ye weigh{H8762)} the violence of your hands in the earth.
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15Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?
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18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
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2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own doings have beset them about; they are before my face.
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6For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
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Hos 4:8
71%
8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their heart on their iniquity.
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11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.
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16In the dark they dig through houses, which they had marked for themselves in the daytime: they know not the light.
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3They have taken crafty{H8686)} counsel against thy people, and consulted{H8691)} against thy hidden ones{H8803)}.
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Ps 38:12
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12They also that seek after my life lay snares{H8762)} for me: and they that seek{H8802)} my hurt speak{H8765)} mischievous things, and imagine{H8799)} deceits all the day long.
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Ps 33:15
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Ps 69:27
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Prov 24:12
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20Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
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6They have prepared{H8689)} a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down{H8804)}: they have digged{H8804)} a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen{H8804)} themselves. Selah.