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Psalms 20:1–9

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THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;
Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;
Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.
Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.
We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.
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From verse 1

  1. Proverbs 18:10Rank 1 from verse 1
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    10The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe.

  2. Psalms 138:7Rank 2 from verse 1
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    7Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou shalt stretch forth thine hand against the wrath of mine enemies, and thy right hand shall save me.

  3. Psalms 91:14–15Rank 3 from verse 1
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    14Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

    15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.

  4. Psalms 46:11Rank 4 from verse 1
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    11The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

  5. Hebrews 5:7Rank 5 from verse 1
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    7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

From verse 2

  1. 1 Kings 8:44–45Rank 1 from verse 2
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    44¶ If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the Lord toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built for thy name:

    45Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

  2. 1 Kings 6:16Rank 2 from verse 2
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    16And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

  3. 2 Chronicles 20:8–9Rank 3 from verse 2
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    8And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

    9If, when evil cometh upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence, (for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction, then thou wilt hear and help.

  4. Isaiah 12:6Rank 4 from verse 2
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    6Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

  5. Isaiah 14:32Rank 5 from verse 2
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    32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

From verse 3

  1. 2 Chronicles 7:1Rank 1 from verse 3
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    1NOW when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.

  2. Psalms 51:19Rank 2 from verse 3
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    19Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

  3. Acts 10:4Rank 3 from verse 3
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    4And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

  4. 1 Chronicles 21:26Rank 4 from verse 3
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    26And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

  5. Ephesians 5:2Rank 5 from verse 3
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    2And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

From verse 4

  1. Psalms 145:19Rank 1 from verse 4
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    19He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.

  2. Psalms 37:4Rank 2 from verse 4
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    4Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

  3. Matthew 21:22Rank 3 from verse 4
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    22And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.

  4. Psalms 21:2Rank 4 from verse 4
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    2Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

  5. John 16:23Rank 5 from verse 4
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    23And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.

From verse 5

  1. Exodus 17:15Rank 1 from verse 5
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    15And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi:

  2. 1 Samuel 1:17Rank 2 from verse 5
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    17Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.

  3. Psalms 60:4Rank 3 from verse 5
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    4Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed because of the truth. Selah.

  4. Isaiah 25:9Rank 4 from verse 5
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    9¶ And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.

  5. Habakkuk 3:18Rank 5 from verse 5
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    18Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

From verse 6

  1. Psalms 28:8Rank 1 from verse 6
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    8The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

  2. Acts 5:31Rank 2 from verse 6
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    31Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins.

  3. Psalms 18:50Rank 3 from verse 6
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    50Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.

  4. Psalms 89:20–23Rank 4 from verse 6
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    20I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:

    21With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

    22The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him.

    23And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

  5. Acts 4:10Rank 5 from verse 6
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    10Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him doth this man stand here before you whole.

From verse 7

  1. Isaiah 31:1Rank 1 from verse 7
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    1WOE to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

  2. Jeremiah 17:5Rank 2 from verse 7
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    5¶ Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.

  3. Proverbs 21:31Rank 3 from verse 7
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    31The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.

  4. Psalms 33:16–17Rank 4 from verse 7
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    16There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

    17An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

  5. 2 Chronicles 32:8Rank 5 from verse 7
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    8With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

From verse 8

  1. Psalms 125:1Rank 1 from verse 8
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    1THEY that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

  2. Micah 7:8Rank 2 from verse 8
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    8¶ Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

  3. Jeremiah 17:7–8Rank 3 from verse 8
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    7Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.

    8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

  4. Psalms 34:21–22Rank 4 from verse 8
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    21Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

    22The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

  5. Judges 5:31Rank 5 from verse 8
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    31So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

From verse 9

  1. Psalms 5:2Rank 1 from verse 9
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    2Hearken unto the voice of my cry, my King, and my God: for unto thee will I pray.

  2. Psalms 118:25–26Rank 2 from verse 9
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    25Save now, I beseech thee, O Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, send now prosperity.

    26Blessed be he that cometh in the name of the Lord: we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

  3. Psalms 44:4Rank 3 from verse 9
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    4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

  4. Matthew 21:15Rank 4 from verse 9
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    15And when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying in the temple, and saying, Hosanna to the Son of David; they were sore displeased,

  5. Psalms 74:12Rank 5 from verse 9
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    12For God is my King of old, working salvation in the midst of the earth.

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DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:1

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

day

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Sense 1: Light or the period of light between morning and evening, as distinguished from night. Sense 2: A complete daily cycle. Sense 3: A specified time, occasion, period, age, or season.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

trouble

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Sense 1: Disturbance, affliction, distress, vexation, or difficulty. Sense 2: To disturb, distress, afflict, or inconvenience.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

defend

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To protect, guard, preserve, or rescue from attack or danger.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:2

COMBINED MEANING

help

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Sense 1: Aid, assistance, or relief. Sense 2: As a verb, to aid, assist, or support.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

out

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Outside, away from within, forth, absent, or no longer in a stated condition.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:3

COMBINED MEANING

remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

accept

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Sense 1: To receive or consent to what is offered; to approve. Sense 2: To regard with favour or partiality.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

sacrifice

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Sense 1: An offering presented to God or to a false god, or the thing so offered. Sense 2: To present, slay, or consume something as such an offering.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:4

COMBINED MEANING

grant

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Sense 1: To give, bestow, allow, or confer, especially in answer to a request. Sense 2: A gift, allowance, or permission conferred by one in authority.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

heart

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Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

fulfil

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To fill up, complete, accomplish, perform, satisfy, carry out, bring to the appointed end, or cause a word, promise, prophecy, desire, duty, time, measure, or work to come fully to pass.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

counsel

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1. A purpose, plan, design, or settled decision. 2. Advice, guidance, or direction. 3. Wisdom, judgment, or understanding for determining a course. 4. As a verb, to advise, direct, or recommend a course.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:5

COMBINED MEANING

rejoice

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1. To be glad, take joy, delight, or exult; to express gladness. 2. To make glad or cause to rejoice.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

set

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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

fulfil

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To fill up, complete, accomplish, perform, satisfy, carry out, bring to the appointed end, or cause a word, promise, prophecy, desire, duty, time, measure, or work to come fully to pass.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:6

COMBINED MEANING

know

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To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

saveth

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Third-person singular present form of save (to rescue, preserve, deliver, or keep from loss or danger).

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

anointed

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of anoint, meaning to apply oil, ointment, or salve to a person or thing; by anointing, to consecrate, set apart, or appoint to an office or holy use.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

holy

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Sense 1: Morally pure, righteous, undefiled, and separate from evil; supremely so of God. Sense 2: Hallowed, consecrated, set apart, devoted, or belonging to God or sacred use; distinguished from what is common, profane, or unclean.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

heaven

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Sense 1: The firmament or expanse above the earth, including the sky and the region of the sun, moon, stars, clouds, rain, and flying creatures. Sense 2: The realm above spoken of as God's throne and dwelling place, and as the place of angels, heavenly beings, and the righteous. Sense 3: By metonymy, God, heavenly authority or source, or those who dwell there.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

saving

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Present-participial, verbal-noun, or prepositional form of save. Sense 1: Preserving, rescuing, or bringing deliverance. Sense 2: As a preposition, except or excepting.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

strength

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Power, might, force, ability, firmness, courage, capacity, support, defence, resources, or that by which a person or thing is enabled to stand, act, endure, overcome, or accomplish a work.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

right

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1. Correct, just, upright, proper, lawful, fitting, true, or due; also a rightful claim or authority. 2. The direction or side opposite the left. 3. Straight, favourable, skilful, or approved. 4. Very, quite, or fully.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hand

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Sense 1: The part of the body at the end of the arm. Sense 2: Figuratively, power, possession, aid, or agency.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:7

COMBINED MEANING

trust

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Sense 1: Confidence or reliance placed in a person or thing. Sense 2: To rely upon, confide in, or place confidence in. Sense 3: Something committed to another's care or charge.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

remember

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1. To retain in mind or call back to mind; to recall. 2. To keep in mind with heed, observance, commemoration, or corresponding action. 3. To take account of a person, promise, deed, sin, or need and act with regard to it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

name

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Sense 1: A word, appellation, or designation by which a person or thing is called or known. Sense 2: The person or persons named or represented. Sense 3: Reputation, character, renown, or remembrance. Sense 4: The authority, behalf, or standing represented by a name. Sense 5: As a verb, to call, designate, or mention by name.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:8

COMBINED MEANING

fallen

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1. Come or gone down from a higher or upright position; dropped or collapsed. 2. Slain, defeated, overthrown, ruined, or declined from a former position or state. 3. Come upon, into, under, or away from a person, thing, place, condition, influence, or relation. 4. Assigned or allotted. 5. In “fallen out,” happened or resulted. 6. In “fallen to,” gone over or surrendered to another side.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

risen

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Having risen; stood up, come forth, ascended, or returned from death.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

stand

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Sense 1: To be upright, rise, stop, remain, endure, take or keep a position, be established, withstand, or present oneself before another. Sense 2: A fixed position or state of stopping, as in ‘at a stand’.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upright

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1. Honest, just, or morally right; also a person so characterized. 2. Straight, erect, or standing up.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Psalms 20:9

COMBINED MEANING

save

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Sense 1: To rescue, deliver, preserve, keep alive, heal, recover, or bring safely through. Sense 2: Except or apart from.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

king

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A sovereign ruler; one exercising royal authority over a kingdom.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

hear

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Sense 1: To perceive sound or spoken words. Sense 2: To receive or learn by report. Sense 3: To listen to, regard, or heed. Sense 4: To attend favourably to a request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

call

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1. To name. 2. To summon or invite. 3. To proclaim or address. 4. To request.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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1THE Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee;

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2Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

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3Remember all thy offerings, and accept thy burnt sacrifice; Selah.

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4Grant thee according to thine own heart, and fulfil all thy counsel.

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5We will rejoice in thy salvation, and in the name of our God we will set up our banners: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions.

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6Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

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7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.

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8They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.

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9Save, Lord: let the king hear us when we call.

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