Psalms 43
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Words in this chapter
Definitions are Strong's own wording from his Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Counts are how often each word appears in this chapter, from the tagged text.
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymH4307× in this chapter
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
- מָהmâhH41004× in this chapter
properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and even relatively, that which); often used with prefixes in various adverbial or conjunctive senses
- אֵלʼêlH4134× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- יָדָהyâdâhH30342× in this chapter
physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
- כִּיkîyH35882× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- בּוֹאbôwʼH9352× in this chapter
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
- גּוֹיgôwyH14711× in this chapter
a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts
- גִּילgîylH15241× in this chapter
a revolution (of time, i.e. an age); also joy
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- הֵםhêmH19921× in this chapter
they (only used when emphatic)
- הָמָהhâmâhH19931× in this chapter
to make a loud sound (like English 'hum'); by implication, to be in great commotion or tumult, to rage, war, moan, clamor
- הַרharH20221× in this chapter
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
- אוֹרʼôwrH2161× in this chapter
illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
- זָנַחzânachH21861× in this chapter
reject, forsake, fail
- חָסִידchâçîydH26231× in this chapter
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
- יָחַלyâchalH31761× in this chapter
to wait; by implication, to be patient, hope
- אֹיֵבʼôyêbH3411× in this chapter
hating; an adversary
- יְשׁוּעָהyᵉshûwʻâhH34441× in this chapter
something saved, i.e. (abstractly) deliverance; hence, aid, victory, prosperity
- כִּנּוֹרkinnôwrH36581× in this chapter
a harp
- אִישׁʼîyshH3761× in this chapter
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
- לֹאlôʼH38081× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- לַחַץlachatsH39061× in this chapter
distress
- אֵלʼêlH4101× in this chapter
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
- מִזְבֵּחַmizbêachH41961× in this chapter
an altar
- מָעוֹזmâʻôwzH45811× in this chapter
a fortified place; figuratively, a defence
- מִרְמָהmirmâhH48201× in this chapter
fraud
- מִשְׁכָּןmishkânH49081× in this chapter
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
- נָחָהnâchâhH51481× in this chapter
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
- נֶפֶשׁnepheshH53151× in this chapter
properly, a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)
- אֶמֶתʼemethH5711× in this chapter
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
- עוֹדʻôwdH57501× in this chapter
properly, iteration or continuance; used only adverbially (with or without preposition), again, repeatedly, still, more
- עֶוֶלʻevelH57661× in this chapter
(moral) evil
- עַלʻalH59211× in this chapter
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
- פָּלַטpâlaṭH64031× in this chapter
to slip out, i.e. escape; causatively, to deliver
- פָּנִיםpânîymH64401× in this chapter
the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposition (before, etc.)
- קָדַרqâdarH69371× in this chapter
to be ashy, i.e. darkcolored; by implication, to mourn (in sackcloth or sordid garments)
- קֹדֶשׁqôdeshH69441× in this chapter
a sacred place or thing; rarely abstract, sanctity
- רִיבrîybH73781× in this chapter
properly, to toss, i.e. grapple; mostly figuratively, to wrangle, i.e. hold a controversy; (by implication) to defend
- רִיבrîybH73791× in this chapter
a contest (personal or legal)
- שָׁחַחshâchachH78171× in this chapter
to sink or depress (reflexive or causative)