King James Version
Psalms 22:17 in the King James Version says “I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.”
Psalms 22:17 · KJV
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I may tell”
H5608properly, to score with a mark as a tally or record, i.e., (by implication) to inscribe, and also to enumerate; intensively, to recount, i.e., celebra
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all my bones”
H6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e., (as pron.) selfsame
“they look”
H5027to scan, i.e., look intently at; by implication, to regard with pleasure, favor or care
“and stare”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
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