King James Version
Psalms 95:8 in the King James Version says “Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: provocation: Heb. conte...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 95 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: provocation: Heb. contention”
Psalms 95:8 · KJV
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.
For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice,
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: provocation: Heb. contention
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“and as in the day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“in the wilderness”
H4057a pasture (i.e., open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert
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