Psalms 85
Study sheet, King James Version, with the original-language words this chapter turns on.
The text
1To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.
2Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.
3Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.
4Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.
5Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?
6Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?
7Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.
8I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
9Surely his salvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land.
10Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
11Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
12Yea, the LORD shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase.
13Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in the way of his steps.
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.
- שׁוּבshûwbH77255× in this chapter
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point); generally to retreat; often adverbial, again
- יְהֹוָהYᵉhôvâhH30684× in this chapter
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
- אֶרֶץʼeretsH7764× in this chapter
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
- יֶשַׁעyeshaʻH34683× in this chapter
liberty, deliverance, prosperity
- נָתַןnâthanH54143× in this chapter
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
- עַםʻamH59713× in this chapter
a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of Israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
- צֶדֶקtsedeqH66643× in this chapter
the right (natural, moral or legal); also (abstractly) equity or (figuratively) prosperity
- דָבַרdâbarH16962× in this chapter
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
- דּוֹרdôwrH17552× in this chapter
properly, a revolution of time, i.e. an age or generation; also a dwelling
- חֵסֵדchêçêdH26172× in this chapter
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
- כֹּלkôlH36052× in this chapter
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
- אֵלʼêlH4132× in this chapter
near, with or among; often in general, to
- אֶמֶתʼemethH5712× in this chapter
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
- אַףʼaphH6392× in this chapter
properly, the nose or nostril; hence, the face, and occasionally a person; also (from the rapid breathing in passion) ire
- שָׁלוֹםshâlôwmH79652× in this chapter
safe, i.e. (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e. health, prosperity, peace
- בֵּןbênH11211× in this chapter
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
- גַּםgamH15711× in this chapter
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
- דֶּרֶךְderekH18701× in this chapter
a road (as trodden); figuratively, a course of life or mode of action, often adverb
- הָלַךְhâlakH19801× in this chapter
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
- חַטָּאָהchaṭṭâʼâhH24031× in this chapter
an offence (sometimes habitual sinfulness), and its penalty, occasion, sacrifice, or expiation; also (concretely) an offender
- חָיָהchâyâhH24211× in this chapter
to live, whether literally or figuratively; causatively, to revive
- חָסִידchâçîydH26231× in this chapter
properly, kind, i.e. (religiously) pious (a saint)
- חָרוֹןchârôwnH27401× in this chapter
a burning of anger
- טוֹבṭôwbH28961× in this chapter
good (as an adjective) in the widest sense; used likewise as a noun, both in the masculine and the feminine, the singular and the plural (good, a good or good thing, a good man or woman; the good, goods or good things, good men or women), also as an adverb (well)
- יְבוּלyᵉbûwlH29811× in this chapter
produce, i.e. a crop or (figuratively) wealth
- יַעֲקֹבYaʻăqôbH32901× in this chapter
Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
- יָרֵאyârêʼH33731× in this chapter
fearing; morally, reverent
- כָּבוֹדkâbôwdH35191× in this chapter
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
- כִּיkîyH35881× in this chapter
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
- כָּסָהkâçâhH36801× in this chapter
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
- כִּסְלָהkiçlâhH36901× in this chapter
in a good sense, trust; in a bad one, silliness
- כַּעַסkaʻaçH37081× in this chapter
vexation
- לֹאlôʼH38081× in this chapter
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
- אַךְʼakH3891× in this chapter
a particle of affirmation, surely; hence (by limitation) only
- אַלʼalH4081× in this chapter
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
- אֵלʼêlH4101× in this chapter
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
- מָהmâhH41001× 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
- מִזְמוֹרmizmôwrH42101× in this chapter
properly, instrumental music; by implication, a poem set to notes
- אֱלֹהִיםʼĕlôhîymH4301× 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
- מָשַׁךְmâshakH49001× in this chapter
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)