King James Version
Psalms 106:6 in the King James Version says “We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 106 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.”
Psalms 106:6 · KJV
Remember me, O LORD, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people: O visit me with thy salvation;
That I may see the good of thy chosen, that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation, that I may glory with thine inheritance.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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“We have sinned”
H2398properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
“with our fathers”
H1father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application
“we have done wickedly”
H7561to be (causatively, do or declare) wrong; by implication, to disturb, violate
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