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Psalms 18:2
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Psalms 18:2
2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
2†The LORD is my rocke, and my fortresse, and my deliuerer: my God, my strength in whome I will trust, my buckler, and the horne of my saluation, and my high tower.
- Heb. my rocke.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 18:2
LORD: The name of God the Father in English, from the Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH, also rendered GOD and JEHOVAH. Lord: A title applied to God and Christ as ruler and master, the one to whom worship and obedience are due. lord: A male master, owner, ruler, or superior addressed or described as one having authority.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
Defense, security, and refuge, applied to the Lord.
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One who delivers; one who releases or rescues; a preserver.
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A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Something committed to a person’s care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
A small shield carried for defense.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Raised or far above; great in height, rank, degree, or importance; as an adverb, greatly or aloft.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study2My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
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Open the full verse study7In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
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Open the full verse study10The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.
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Open the full verse study14Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
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Open the full verse study2I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
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Open the full verse study2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
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Open the full verse study3The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.
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Open the full verse study19O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.
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Open the full verse study2And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
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Open the full verse study4He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
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Open the full verse study13And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
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Open the full verse study7He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
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Open the full verse study1UNTO thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
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Open the full verse study11Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
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Open the full verse study10All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
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Open the full verse study17There will I make the horn of David to bud: I have ordained a lamp for mine anointed.
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