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Psalm 9

Psa. 9:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
is known
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
by the judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
which he executeth
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
: the wicked
rasha` (Hebrew #7563)
morally wrong; concretely, an (actively) bad person
KJV usage: + condemned, guilty, ungodly, wicked (man), that did wrong.
Pronounce: raw-shaw'
Origin: from 7561
is snared
naqash (Hebrew #5367)
to entrap (with a noose), literally or figuratively
KJV usage: catch (lay a) snare.
Pronounce: naw-kash'
Origin: a primitive root
in the work
po`al (Hebrew #6467)
an act or work (concretely)
KJV usage: act, deed, do, getting, maker, work.
Pronounce: po'-al
Origin: from 6466
of his own hands
kaph (Hebrew #3709)
the hollow hand or palm (so of the paw of an animal, of the sole, and even of the bowl of a dish or sling, the handle of a bolt, the leaves of a palm-tree); figuratively, power
KJV usage: branch, + foot, hand((-ful), -dle, (-led)), hollow, middle, palm, paw, power, sole, spoon.
Pronounce: kaf
Origin: from 3721
. φHiggaion
higgayown (Hebrew #1902)
a murmuring sound, i.e. a musical notation (probably similar to the modern affettuoso to indicate solemnity of movement); by implication, a machination
KJV usage: device, Higgaion, meditation, solemn sound.
Pronounce: hig-gaw-yone'
Origin: intensive from 1897
i. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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Psa. 19:14• 14Let the words of my mouth{HR}And the meditation of my heart be acceptable before thee,{HR}O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer. (Psa. 19:14)
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Psa. 92:3• 3On decachord and on psaltery,{HR}On a meditation with a harp, (Psa. 92:3)
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i.e. meditation.

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Higgaion,
Selah,
Snare

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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known.
Psa. 48:11• 11Mount Zion rejoiceth,{HR}The daughters of Judah exult because of thy judgments. (Psa. 48:11)
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Psa. 58:10‑11• 10The righteous one shall rejoice,{HR}For he hath seen vengeance;{HR}His steps he shall wash in the blood of the wicked one;
 11And a man shall say, Surely the righteous one hath fruit;{HR}Surely there is a God judging in the earth. (Psa. 58:10‑11)
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Psa. 83:17‑18• 17They shall be ashamed and dismayed forever,{HR}And they shall be confounded and perish.
 18And they shall know that thou alone,{HR}Whose name [is] Jehovah,{HR}[Art] Most High above all the earth. (Psa. 83:17‑18)
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Ex. 7:5• 5And the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah, when I stretch forth my hand on Egypt, and bring out the children of Israel from among them. (Ex. 7:5)
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Ex. 14:4,10,31• 4And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he may pursue after them; and I will glorify myself in Pharaoh, and in all his host; and the Egyptians shall know that I am Jehovah. And they did so.
 10And Pharaoh approached; and the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and the children of Israel were much afraid, and cried out to Jehovah.
 31And Israel saw the great power with which Jehovah had wrought against the Egyptians; and the people feared Jehovah, and believed in Jehovah, and in Moses his bondman. (Ex. 14:4,10,31)
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Deut. 29:22‑28• 22And the generation to come, your children who shall rise up after you, and the foreigner that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and its sicknesses wherewith Jehovah hath visited it,
 23that the whole ground thereof is brimstone and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, and no grass groweth in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboim, which Jehovah overthrew in his anger and in his fury:
 24even all nations shall say, Why has Jehovah done thus to this land? whence the heat of this great anger?
 25And men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah the God of their fathers, which he had made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt;
 26and they went and served other gods, and bowed down to them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not assigned to them.
 27And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curse that is written in this book;
 28and Jehovah rooted them out of their land in anger, and in fury, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it appears this day. (Deut. 29:22‑28)
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Josh. 2:10‑11• 10For we have heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
 11And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. (Josh. 2:10‑11)
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Judg. 1:7• 7And Adoni-Bezek said, Seventy kings, with their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gleaned under my table: as I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. (Judg. 1:7)
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1 Sam. 6:19‑20• 19And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of Jehovah. And he smote of the people fifty thousand and seventy men: and the people lamented, because Jehovah had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
 20And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before this holy Jehovah God? and to whom shall he go up from us? (1 Sam. 6:19‑20)
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1 Sam. 17:46• 46This day will Jehovah deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcasss of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God, in Israel; (1 Sam. 17:46)
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2 Kings 19:19,34‑35• 19And now, Jehovah our God, I beseech thee, save us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, Jehovah, art God, thou only.
 34For I will defend this city, to save it,{HR}For mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
 35It came to pass that night, that the angel of Jehovah went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. (2 Kings 19:19,34‑35)
wicked.
Psa. 11:6• 6He will rain upon the wicked snares, fire and brimstone{HR}And a burning tempest—the portion of their cup. (Psa. 11:6)
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Psa. 140:9• 9[As for] the head of my surroundings,{HR}Let the mischief of their lips cover them. (Psa. 140:9)
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Prov. 6:2• 2Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth,{HR}Thou art taken with the words of thy mouth. (Prov. 6:2)
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Prov. 12:13• 13In the transgression of the lips is an evil snare;{HR}But a righteous [man] shall come out of trouble. (Prov. 12:13)
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Isa. 8:15• 15And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken and snared and taken. (Isa. 8:15)
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Isa. 28:13• 13Therefore shall the word of Jehovah be unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken and snared and taken. (Isa. 28:13)
Higgaion, that is, Meditation.
Psa. 5:1• 1To the chief musician upon Nehiloth;{HR}A Psalm of David.{HR}Give ear unto my words, O Jehovah;{HR}Consider my meditation. (Psa. 5:1)
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Psa. 19:14• 14Let the words of my mouth{HR}And the meditation of my heart be acceptable before thee,{HR}O Jehovah, my rock and my redeemer. (Psa. 19:14)
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Psa. 92:3• 3On decachord and on psaltery,{HR}On a meditation with a harp, (Psa. 92:3)
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Psa. 92•  (Psa. 92)
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• {v.16-17} Antichrist (the “wicked” of vs. 16) and the nations that follow Antichrist (the “wicked” of vs. 17) are turned into Sheol together with all the nations (those outside the sphere of Antichrist) that forget God. (“Psalm 9” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Jehovah is known by the judgment he hath executed: the wicked is ensnared in the work of his own hands. Higgaionh. Selah.

JND Translation Notes

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This may mean, "to be played on the harp"; if not "meditate." Same word as Ps. 19.14; 92.3; Lam. 3.62.

W. Kelly Translation

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aJehovah is become known;{HR}He hath executed judgment:{HR}In the work of his own hands the wicked [man] is ensnared.{HR}Higgayon. Selah.

WK Translation Notes

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Meditation.