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Psalms 83:5

83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: consent: Heb. heart

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For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against you:

83:6 The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

What does Psalms 83:5 mean?

Psalms 83:5 is a verse in the book of Psalms, in the Old Testament. In the original Hebrew, key words include יָעַץ (yâʻats), יַחַד (yachad), לֵב (lêb).

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For
they
have
consultedיָעַץyâʻats/yaw-ats'/H3289to advise; reflexively, to deliberate or resolve
togetherיַחַדyachad/yakh'-ad/H3162properly, a unit, i.e. (adverb) unitedly
with
one
consent:לֵבlêb/labe/H3820the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
they
areכָּרַתkârath/kaw-rath'/H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
confederateבְּרִיתbᵉrîyth/ber-eeth'/H1285a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
against
thee:
consent:
Heb.
heart

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Verses like this

Other verses that share key original-language words with Psalms 83:5.

Exodus 23:32

Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Exodus 24:8

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.

Exodus 34:10

And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.

Exodus 34:12

Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

Exodus 34:15

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

Exodus 34:27

And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

Genesis 15:18

In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:

Genesis 17:14

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

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What does Psalms 83:5 say?

Psalms 83:5 (King James Version) reads: "For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: consent: Heb. heart"

Is Psalms 83:5 in the Old or New Testament?

Psalms 83:5 is in the Old Testament of the Bible, in the book of Psalms.

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