King James Version
Psalms 35:12 in the King James Version says “They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. spoiling: Heb. depriving” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. spoiling: Heb. depriving”
Psalms 35:12 · KJV
All my bones shall say, LORD, who is like unto thee, which deliverest the poor from him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from him that spoileth him?
False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. False: Heb. Witnesses of wrong they: Heb. they asked me
They rewarded me evil for good to the spoiling of my soul. spoiling: Heb. depriving
But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom. humbled: or, afflicted
I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother. behaved myself: Heb. walked as though: Heb. as a friend, as a brother to me
KJV Study — Public Domain
“They rewarded”
H7999to be safe (in mind, body or estate); figuratively, to be (causatively, make) completed; by implication, to be friendly; by extension, to reciprocate
the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially, below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc
“for good”
H2896good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good
“of 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
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