King James Version
Psalms 27:2 in the King James Version says “When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. came: Heb. appr...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 27 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. came: Heb. approached against me”
Psalms 27:2 · KJV
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. came: Heb. approached against me
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple. the beauty: or, the delight
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above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“When the wicked”
H7489properly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good for nothing, i.e., bad (physically, socially or morally)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“my flesh”
H1320flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of a man
“they stumbled”
H3782to totter or waver (through weakness of the legs, especially the ankle); by implication, to falter, stumble, faint or fall
“and fell”
H5307to fall, in a great variety of applications (intransitive or causative, literal or figurative)
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