King James Version
Psalms 35:21 in the King James Version says “Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 35 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.”
Psalms 35:21 · KJV
Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me: neither let them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. wrongfully: Heb. falsely
For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against them that are quiet in the land.
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it.
This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not far from me.
Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
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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
“Yea they opened their mouth”
H6310the mouth (as the means of blowing), whether literal or figurative (particularly speech); specifically edge, portion or side; adverbially (with prepos
“hath seen”
H7200to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
“our eye”
H5869an eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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