Psalm 3
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Psalms 3— Hebrew word study · with the Hebrew tradition
How to read a word below: the Hebrewword, then how it sounds, then what it means, then its number in Strong’s concordance, a widely used lookup this site follows (H for Hebrew and Aramaic, G for Greek). Square brackets hold a word the English supplies that the Hebrew does not, angle brackets mark the Hebrew’s own grammatical elements that English renders as separate words, and the mark ס or פ is where the Hebrew manuscripts end a paragraph.
Psalms 3:1· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Psalms 3:1
A song of David, when he fled The Aggadists expounded many homilies on this matter. Our Sages said (Ber.
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Aramaic Targum to Psalms 3:1
A psalm of David, when he fled from the presence of Absalom his son.
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Psalms 3:2· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Psalms 3:2
Great men rise up against me Men great in Torah, great in wisdom, great in wealth, tall in stature, such as Saul; the children of Raphah; Doeg, and Ahitophel.
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Aramaic Targum to Psalms 3:2
Lord, how many are my oppressors, many who arise against me!
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Psalms 3:3· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Psalms 3:4· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Psalms 3:4
But Thou, Lord, art a shield about me: – the opposite of their words who are saying that there is no hope for me in this world, nor in the world to come. Thus they are thinking and saying; but Thou wilt deal with me in the very opposite way and wilt be a shield about me to deliver me in this world and a shield about me in the world to come.
Read it in full at Sefaria · R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919
Psalms 3:5· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Radak on Psalms 3:5
I cry unto the Lord with my voice: – i.e. unto the Lord with my voice, for I cry to Him by reason of (my) distress.
Read it in full at Sefaria · R. David Kimhi on the first book of Psalms, Translated by R.G. Finch, London, 1919
Psalms 3:6· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible
Rashi on Psalms 3:6
I lay down and slept My heart was clogged from worry and fear.
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Psalms 3:7· Hebrew and glosses: STEP Bible