KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 17:11–12
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Psalms 17:11
11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;
11They haue now compassed vs in our steps: they haue set their eyes bowing downe to the earth:
Psalms 17:12
12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
12††Like as a lyon that is greedie of his pray, and as it were a yong lyon lurking in secret places.
- Heb. the likeness of him (i. of euery one of them) is as a lion that desireth to rauin.
- Heb. sitting.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 17:11
To go all round or all over; Circumference, circuit.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Movements or paces of the feet; footsteps, courses, degrees, or stages in going.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To place, fix, appoint, establish, or prescribe; also fixed or determined.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
Bending; stooping; making a bow.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
From a higher place or position to a lower one; below.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The ground or dry land; the world or inhabited realm; or a country and its people, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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Psalms 17:12
Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely; or, as a verb, to please.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828
A large, powerful wild cat; figuratively, one fierce or strong.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having an eager, grasping, or excessive appetite, whether for food, prey, gain, or money.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Booty or spoil taken by force; an animal or person hunted or seized.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Early in life or growth; not mature; also offspring, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Lying concealed; keeping out of sight.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Locations, positions, rooms, occasions, offices, or passages, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study13He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers;
14Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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Open the full verse study14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
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Open the full verse study8He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
10He croucheth, and humbleth himself, that the poor may fall by his strong ones.
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Open the full verse study26And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.
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Open the full verse study2Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.
3And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.
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Open the full verse study2Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
3And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon, by the way. But David abode in the wilderness, and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness.
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Open the full verse study17They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
From verse 12
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Open the full verse study2Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
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Open the full verse study8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
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Open the full verse study9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
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Open the full verse study17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
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Open the full verse study13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
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