King James Version
Psalms 55:13 in the King James Version says “But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. mine equal: Heb. according to my rank” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 55 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. mine equal: Heb. according to my rank”
Psalms 55:13 · KJV
Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from him:
But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. mine equal: Heb. according to my rank
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company. We: Heb. Who sweetened counsel
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them. hell: or, the grave
KJV Study — Public Domain
“But it was thou a man”
H582properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified h0120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
“my guide”
H441familiar; a friend, also gentle; and so, a chieftain (as notable, like neat cattle)
“and mine acquaintance”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
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