King James Version
Psalms 6:5 in the King James Version says “For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?”
Psalms 6:5 · KJV
My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O LORD, how long?
Return, O LORD, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies' sake.
For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks?
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. all: or, every night
Mine eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all mine enemies.
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
“For in death”
H4194death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
“there is no remembrance”
H2143a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
“of thee in the grave”
H7585hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates
who? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often used in oblique construction with prefix or suffix
“who shall give thee thanks”
H3034physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the ha
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