KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 39:3–4
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Psalms 39:3
3My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
3My heart was hot within mee, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue.
Psalms 39:4
4Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
4‖ LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: that I may know how fraile I am.
- Or, what time I haue here.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 39:3
The bodily organ; more often in Scripture, the inward person—the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character—according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Having great heat; also ardent, vehement, or eager.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Meditation; contemplation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Flame and burning heat; figuratively, fiery trial, judgment, zeal, or anger; to kindle or burn.
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Consumed with fire; scorched or dried with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire.
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The organ of speech; a language; speech or manner of speaking.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 39:4
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
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To perceive, understand, recognize, experience, or be assured of something.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
The last or concluding part; a termination, limit, purpose, or result. As a verb, to cease or bring to a close.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A standard or instrument for determining amount or size; an amount so determined; also to determine, allot, or proportion.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Weak, perishable, or easily broken; subject to human limitation.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 3
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Open the full verse study9Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
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Open the full verse study32And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
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Open the full verse study14So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
From verse 4
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Open the full verse study12So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
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Open the full verse study14For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
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Open the full verse study13O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
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Open the full verse study84How many are the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?
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