King James Version
Psalms 22:7 in the King James Version says “All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, shoot: Heb. open” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 22 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, shoot: Heb. open”
Psalms 22:7 · KJV
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, shoot: Heb. open
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. He trusted: Heb. He rolled himself on seeing: or, if he delight in
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts. didst: or, kept me in safety
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“All they that see”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“me laugh me to scorn”
H3932to deride; by implication (as if imitating a foreigner) to speak unintelligibly
to cleave or burst through, i.e., (causatively) to emit, whether literal or figurative (gape)
“the lip”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
“they shake”
H5128to waver, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively (as subjoined)
“the head”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
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