King James Version
Psalms 83:8 in the King James Version says “Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. holpen: Heb. been an arm to” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 83 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. holpen: Heb. been an arm to”
Psalms 83:8 · KJV
The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;
Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah. holpen: Heb. been an arm to
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
Which perished at Endor: they became as dung for the earth.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“Assur”
H804ashshur, the second son of shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.e., assyria), its region and its empire
“also is joined”
H3867properly, to twine; also to borrow (as a form of obligation) or (causative) to lend
adverb or preposition, with (i.e., in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically, equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“with them they have holpen”
H2220the arm (as stretched out), or (of animals) the foreleg; figuratively, force
“the children”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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