Bible Verse Dictionary
Psalms 143:3 - Life
Verse | Strongs No. | Hebrew | |
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For | H3588 | כִּי |
[Conjunction] (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed |
the enemy | H341 | אֹיֵב |
hating; an adversary |
hath persecuted | H7291 | רָדַף |
[Verb] to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively (of time) gone by) |
my soul | H5315 | נֶפֶשׁ |
[Noun Feminine] properly a breathing {creature} that {is} animal or (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a {literal} accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental) |
he hath smitten | H1792 | דָּכָא |
[Verb] transitively to bruise (literally or figuratively) |
my life | H2416 | חַי |
[Adjective] alive; hence raw (flesh); fresh ({plant} {water} {year}) strong; also (as {noun} especially in the feminine singular and masculine plural) life (or living {thing}) whether literally or figuratively |
down to the ground | H776 | אֶרֶץ |
[Noun Feminine] the earth (at {large} or partitively a land) |
he hath made me to dwell | H3427 | יָשַׁב |
[Verb] properly to sit down (specifically as {judge} in {ambush} in quiet); by implication to {dwell} to remain; causatively to {settle} to marry |
in darkness | H4285 | מַחְשָׁךְ |
[Noun Masculine] darkness; concretely a dark place |
as those that have been long | H5769 | עוֹלָם |
[Noun Masculine] properly {concealed} that {is} the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or {future}) that {is} (practically) eternity; frequentative adverbially (especially with prepositional prefix) always |
dead | H4191 | מוּת |
[Verb] to die (literally or figuratively); causatively to kill |
Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.