King James Version
Psalms 116:8 in the King James Version says “For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 116 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.”
Psalms 116:8 · KJV
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.
Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.
I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For thou hast delivered”
H2502to pull off; hence (intensively) to strip, (reflexive) to depart; by implication, to deliver, equip (for fight); present, strengthen
“my soul”
H5315properly, a breathing creature, i.e., animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or ment
“from death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“mine eyes”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and my feet”
H7272a foot (as used in walking); by implication, a step; by euphemistically the pudenda
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