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Psalms 119:85
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Psalms 119:85
85The proud have digged pits for me, which are not after thy law.
85The proud haue digged pittes for me: which are not after thy law.
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Psalms 119:85
Having an unduly high opinion of oneself; haughty or self-exalting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Dug; opened, excavated, or turned up the earth.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Later than, behind, following, or in pursuit of, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A rule, command, or body of commands established by authority; especially God's commandments or the law given through Moses, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study27An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
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Open the full verse study7For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.
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Open the full verse study20Shall evil be recompensed for good? for they have digged a pit for my soul. Remember that I stood before thee to speak good for them, and to turn away thy wrath from them.
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Open the full verse study78Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
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Open the full verse study15He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
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Open the full verse study11Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
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Open the full verse study22Let a cry be heard from their houses, when thou shalt bring a troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid snares for my feet.
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Open the full verse study1DO ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
2Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.
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