v.1—the Hebrew term sheminith (שְׁמִינִית—shÿminit) is not known; it is purported to be a particular style of music or an eight-stringed lyre. “Help, Lord”— the term qara’ (kaw-raw') means to …show more content…
Indicating that the words they speak are of no value, to the point of becoming evil. The way they go about speaking this evil is expressed in v.2b “with flattering”—chelqah (khel-kaw') meaning smoothness, slippery, smooth (being manipulative and cunning); “…and with a double heart”—leb figuratively used for the feelings, the will and even the intellect, again, with “speak”—(negatively) to subdue. “They speak” is used twice in v.2 to exaggerate and bring attention to (through its parallelism) how the falsehood was being completed- through their