Psalms 41:2

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Psalms 41:2


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To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Blessed is he that considereth the poor: the LORD will deliver him in time of trouble.
The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; and he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.
The LORD will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

The LORDH3068 will preserveH8104 him, and keep him aliveH2421; and he shall be blessedH833 upon the earthH776: and thou wilt not deliverH5414 him unto the willH5315 of his enemiesH341.


Original Hebrew

יְהוָה ׀ יִשְׁמְרֵהוּ וִיחַיֵּהוּ [יֶאְשֹּׁר כ] (וְאֻשַּׁר ק) בָּאָרֶץ וְאַל־תִּתְּנֵהוּ בְּנֶפֶשׁ אֹיְבָיו׃

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Morphology Gloss
יְהוָ֤ה
Yah.weh H3068 HNp Yahweh
יִשְׁמְרֵ֣/הוּ
yish.me.Re./hu H8104 HVqi3ms/Sp3ms he will keep/ him
וִֽ֭/יחַיֵּ/הוּ
Vi./chai.ye./hu H2421 HC/Vpi3ms/Sp3ms and/ he will preserve alive/ him
[יאשר כ] (וְ/אֻשַּׁ֣ר ק)
[ʼâshar כ] (ve./'u.Shar ק) H833 כ [HTi כ] (Hc/VPq3ms ק) (and/ he will be called blessed ק)
בָּ/אָ֑רֶץ
ba./'A.retz H776 HRd/Ncbsa in the/ land
וְ/אַֽל
ve./'al- H408 HC/Tn and/ may not
תִּ֝תְּנֵ֗/הוּ
ti.te.Ne./hu H5414 HVqj2ms/Sp3ms you give/ him
בְּ/נֶ֣פֶשׁ
be./Ne.fesh H5315 HR/Ncbsc in/ (the) desire of
אֹיְבָֽי/ו
'o.ye.Va/v H341 HVqrmpc/Sp3ms enemies/ his
Where the Hebrew text is written one way but traditionally read another, both are shown: [written form כ] (Ketiv) and (read form ק) (Qere).
Strong's References
  • H341 — אֹיֵב (ʼôyêb, o-yabe'): or (fully) אוֹיֵב (ʼôwyêb); active participle of אָיַב (ʼâyab) H340; hating; an adversary; enemy, foe.
  • H776 — אֶרֶץ (ʼerets, eh'-rets): from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
  • H833 — אָשַׁר (ʼâshar, aw-shar'): or אָשֵׁר (ʼâshêr); a primitive root; to be straight (used in the widest sense, especially to be level, right, happy); figuratively, to go forward, be honest, proper; (call, be) bless(-ed, happy), go, guide, lead, relieve.
  • H2421 — חָיָה (châyâh, khaw-yaw'): a primitive root (compare חָוָה (châvâh) H2331, חָיָה (châyâh) H2421); to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive; keep (leave, make) alive, [idiom] certainly, give (promise) life, (let, suffer to) live, nourish up, preserve (alive), quicken, recover, repair, restore (to life), revive, ([idiom] God) save (alive, life, lives), [idiom] surely, be whole.
  • H3068 — יְהֹוָה (Yᵉhôvâh, yeh-ho-vaw'): from הָיָה (hâyâh) H1961; (the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God; Jehovah, the Lord. Compare יָהּ (Yâhh) H3050, יְהֹוִה (Yᵉhôvih) H3069.
  • H5315 — נֶפֶשׁ (nephesh, neh'-fesh): from נָפַשׁ (nâphash) H5314; properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental); any, appetite, beast, body, breath, creature, [idiom] dead(-ly), desire, [idiom] (dis-) contented, [idiom] fish, ghost, [phrase] greedy, he, heart(-y), (hath, [idiom] jeopardy of) life ([idiom] in jeopardy), lust, man, me, mind, mortally, one, own, person, pleasure, (her-, him-, my-, thy-) self, them (your) -selves, [phrase] slay, soul, [phrase] tablet, they, thing, ([idiom] she) will, [idiom] would have it.
  • H5414 — נָתַן (nâthan, naw-than'): a primitive root; to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.); add, apply, appoint, ascribe, assign, [idiom] avenge, [idiom] be (healed), bestow, bring (forth, hither), cast, cause, charge, come, commit, consider, count, [phrase] cry, deliver (up), direct, distribute, do, [idiom] doubtless, [idiom] without fail, fasten, frame, [idiom] get, give (forth, over, up), grant, hang (up), [idiom] have, [idiom] indeed, lay (unto charge, up), (give) leave, lend, let (out), [phrase] lie, lift up, make, [phrase] O that, occupy, offer, ordain, pay, perform, place, pour, print, [idiom] pull, put (forth), recompense, render, requite, restore, send (out), set (forth), shew, shoot forth (up), [phrase] sing, [phrase] slander, strike, (sub-) mit, suffer, [idiom] surely, [idiom] take, thrust, trade, turn, utter, [phrase] weep, [phrase] willingly, [phrase] withdraw, [phrase] would (to) God, yield.
  • H8104 — שָׁמַר (shâmar, shaw-mar'): a primitive root; properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e. guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.; beward, be circumspect, take heed (to self), keep(-er, self), mark, look narrowly, observe, preserve, regard, reserve, save (self), sure, (that lay) wait (for), watch(-man).

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

  • H408 — אַל (ʼal, al): a negative particle (akin to לֹא (lôʼ) H3808); not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing; nay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.
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