King James Version
Psalms 27:11 in the King James Version says “Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. a plain: Heb. a way of plainness mine: H...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 27 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. a plain: Heb. a way of plainness mine: Heb. those which observe me”
Psalms 27:11 · KJV
Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up. take: Heb. gather me
Teach me thy way, O LORD, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. a plain: Heb. a way of plainness mine: Heb. those which observe me
Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
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“Teach”
H3384properly, to flow as water (i.e., to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e., to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by
“me thy way”
H1870a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
“me in a plain”
H4334a level, i.e., a plain (often used (with the article prefix) as a proper name of certain districts); figuratively, concord; also straightness, i.e., (
properly, heed, i.e., purpose; used only adverbially, on account of (as a motive or an aim), teleologically, in order that
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