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Psalm 139

Psa. 139:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For thou hast possessed
qanah (Hebrew #7069)
to erect, i.e. create; by extension, to procure, especially by purchase (causatively, sell); by implication to own
KJV usage: attain, buy(-er), teach to keep cattle, get, provoke to jealousy, possess(-or), purchase, recover, redeem, X surely, X verily.
Pronounce: kaw-naw'
Origin: a primitive root
my reins
kilyah (Hebrew #3629)
a kidney (as an essential organ); figuratively, the mind (as the interior self)
KJV usage: kidneys, reins.
Pronounce: kil-yaw'
Origin: feminine of 3627 (only in the plural)
: thou hast covered
cakak (Hebrew #5526)
a primitive root; properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect
KJV usage: cover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
Pronounce: saw-kak'
Origin: or sakak (Exod. 33:22) {saw-kak'}
me in my mother’s
'em (Hebrew #517)
a mother (as the bond of the family); in a wide sense (both literally and figuratively (like 1)
KJV usage: dam, mother, X parting.
Pronounce: ame
Origin: a primitive word
womb
beten (Hebrew #990)
the belly, especially the womb; also the bosom or body of anything
KJV usage: belly, body, + as they be born, + within, womb.
Pronounce: beh'-ten
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be hollow
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Ministry on This Verse

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For thou.
Job 10:9‑12• 9Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?
 10Hast thou not poured me out as milk, and curdled me like cheese?
 11Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, and hast fenced me with bones and sinews.
 12Thou hast granted me life and favor, and thy visitation hath preserved my spirit. (Job 10:9‑12)
covered me.
Psa. 22:9‑10• 9But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
 10I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. (Psa. 22:9‑10)
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Psa. 71:6• 6By thee have I been holden up from the womb: thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: my praise shall be continually of thee. (Psa. 71:6)
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Job 31:15• 15Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not one fashion us in the womb? (Job 31:15)
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Isa. 44:2• 2Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen. (Isa. 44:2)
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Isa. 46:3• 3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, which are borne by me from the belly, which are carried from the womb: (Isa. 46:3)
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Jer. 1:5• 5Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jer. 1:5)
• His omnipotence—unlimited in power (vs. 13-18). (“Book 5.” by B. Anstey)
• (vv. 13-18) Here, however, there comes a great change in his experiences, as the result of turning from himself, and his own works, to God and His marvelous works as the Creator. With this change of experience he breaks into praise. He realizes that he is God’s possession, formed by God for God’s own purposes settled before ever he was fashioned. (“Psalms 139” by H. Smith)
• Here it is man as man, so that the earth out of which he was fashioned at first is as the womb out of which we were born. God has formed us, be it in the womb of dust or of our mother, the place where we were nothing, before we were. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 139-143” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For thou hast possessed my reins; thou didst cover mec in my mother’s womb.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "thou didst knit me together," as Job 10.11. See also "hedged in," Job 3.23, and "cover," Ps. 91.4.