Psalm 22:1-15

^I “leader” = natsach. Chief musician or singer, overseer, preeminent, enduring, excelling. Properly, this word means to glitter from afar, thus to be eminent. Especially used of Temple services and the music thereof.
^II “deer” = ayeleth. 3x in NT. From ayyal (a hart, stag, deer); from the same as ulam (a porch); from the same as ul (mighty, body, belly); (from an unused root meaning to twist – by implication, to be strong; the body as rolled together; powerful, mighty, strength). This is doe or a lofty tree. Also used figuratively to compliment a young wife.
^III “dawn” = schachar. Related to schachar (to look diligently for or to look early). This is dawn, early light, or morning.
^IV “psalm” = mizmor. From zamar (to make music praising God); perhaps from zamar (to trim, prune) from the sense of stringed instruments being plucked. This is a melody or psalm; instrumental music for a poem set to a tune.
^V “David” = David. Related to dod (beloved, love, or uncle as one who is close to you). This name perhaps means loving or beloved one.

^VI “God” = el. Used for God and for a god.
^VII “forsaken” = azab. To loosen, abandon, leave, relinquish, permit, fail, leave destitute.
^VIII “so far” = rachoq. From rachaq (to be or become far or distant, cast, drive, get, go, keep self, put, remove; to widen in any direction; to recede; to remove). So this word is distant in place or in time – used literally and figuratively.
^IX “helping” = yeshuah. From yasha (to deliver, rescue, defend, preserve, avenge; properly, to be open, wide or free and thus to be safe). This is the noun of salvation, deliverance, health, welfare. The word for Messiah in Hebrew and also the names Jesus and Joshua share roots with this word.
^X “words” = dabar. From dabar (to speak). This is speech, word, topic, thing, message.
^XI “groaning” = sheagah. 7x in OT – 4x of lions roaring and 3x of human groaning. From shaag (to roar, rumble, moan, groan). This is roaring, rumbling, moaning.

^XII “God” = Elohim.
^XIII “cry” = qara. This is to call, proclaim, call out, to address someone by name, call forth, invite, give someone a name, preach, proclaim.
^XIV “by day” = yomam. From yom (day, today, daily, each, always, continually); (from an unused root meaning to be hot – so the day as the warm hours). This word could mean daytime or by the day.
^XV “night” = layil. Night, midnight. This is properly a twist away of the light. Used figuratively for adversity.
^XVI “rest” = dumiyyah. 4x in OT. From an unused root meaning to be silent – used figuratively for death. This word is silence, quiet waiting, stillness. Abstractly, it can mean trust.

^XVII “holy” = qadosh. Related to qodesh (set apart, sacredness, a sacred place or thing). This word is holy, sacred, a holy one, a saint. This is sacred ceremonially or morally.
^XVIII “enthroned” = yashab. Literally, to sit, remain, dwell, abide, continue, establish. Literally refers to sitting down, but by extension this can mean to sit as judge, to sit in ambush, to sit in silence. Further implication of sitting is dwelling somewhere, remaining there. Causatively used for settling or for marrying.
^XIX “praises” = tehillah. From halal (to be boastful, to praise). Shares a root with Hallelujah (praise the Lord). This word is praise, song of praise, deep place. Used concretely for a hymn.
^XX “Israel” = yisrael. From sarah (to persist, exert oneself, persevere, contend, strive, wrestle; prevail, have power as a prince) + el (God, god). This word is God Strives or one who strives with God. This is a name given to Jacob and his descendants.

^XXI “ancestors” = ab. Literally father. This word can also mean chief or principal. It is used in a literal and figurative sense.
^XXII “trusted” = batach. To trust, be confident, be secure or sure, make to hope. Properly, to hide for refuge – figuratively to trust or be confident.
^XXIII “delivered” = palat. This word is to escape, calve, carry away safe, deliver. Literally to slip out (from danger to safety) i.e. escape. Used causatively, it means to deliver someone else.
^XXIV “cried” = zaaq. To cry, cry out, call, assemble, call together, gather together. Can also be to shriek from anguish or danger. By analogy, it means to announce as a herald or to convene publicly.
^XXV “saved” = malat. Properly, to be smooth. By implication, to escape as if by slipperiness. Causatively, to release or rescue. Used specifically for bringing forth young or for emitting sparks.
^XXVI “put to shame” = bosh. To be ashamed or put to confusion. Properly, this means to be pale, which implies being ashamed, disappointed, delayed, or confounded.

^XXVII “worm” = tola. A maggot that is voracious. Specifically refers to the crimson grub (coccus ilicis), which was used to produce a red dye. Thus, this word can also mean stuff dyed scarlet, crimson, or purple or the dye itself. This word is also used figuratively to mean oppressor.
^XXVIII “human” = ish. Literally, a man, male, or husband.
^XXIX “scorned” = cherpah. From charaph (betroth, to reproach, blaspheme, defy, rail, upbraid; to pull off, by implication to expose (as by stripping); to betroth as if a surrender; fig. to carp at, defame; to spend the winter, blaspheme, defy). This word is reproach, rebuke, shame, disgrace. It can also be used to refer to genitalia.
^XXX “others” = adam. Human, humankind, another. Related to adamah (dirt or ground and, of course, the first human, Adam).
^XXXI “despised” = bazah. To despise, disdain, scorn, a vile person.
^XXXII “people” = am. From amam (to darken, dim, associate – to overshadow by huddling together). This is people as a congregated unit – so tribe, troops, attendants, folk, people, nation. Also used figuratively for a flock.

^XXXIII “mock” = laag. 19x in OT – 8x of fellow Israelites taunting, 7x of enemies or enemy nations taunting, and 4x of God or wisdom laughing. This is to mock, deride, stammer, or laugh. It implies imitating a foreigner and thus speaking unintelligibly. 
^XXXIV “make” = patar. 4x in OT. To separate, remove, set free, dismiss, let shoot out, slip away. To cleave or burst through. Causatively to emit literally or figuratively; to gape.
^XXXV “mouths” = saphah. This is lip as a boundary of the face so it implies language or speech. It is also other margins or edges – border, brim, brink, edge of a vessel, a bank, etc.
^XXXVI “shake” = nua. To quiver, wave, waver, tremble, totter, fugitive, to go up and down. This is to waver literally and figuratively. Used in Genesis 4 to pronounce Cain a fugitive and a wanderer.
^XXXVII “heads” = rosh. This is head, captain, band, or company. Root may mean to shake – the head as easily shaken. Head used literally or figuratively.

^XXXVIII “commit your cause” = galal. 18x in OT. To roll, roll away, commit, remove, run down, seek occasion, trust. Roll used literally or figuratively. Used of rolling stones, having an opportunity, rolling away scorn or disgrace, wallowing in blood, committing to the Lord, and justice rolling down like waters.
^XXXIX “Lord” = YHVH. From havah (to become) or from hayah (to come to pass, become, be). This is the name of the God of Israel; the tetragrammaton; the self-existent and eternal one.
^XL “deliver” = palat. Same as “delivered” in v4.
^XLI “rescue” = natsal. To strip, plunder, deliver oneself or be delivered, snatch away, defend, escape. To snatch away in a good or bad sense.
^XLII “delights” = chaphets. Properly, to incline to, to bend, which figuratively implies being pleased with. This is to desire, delight in, or be pleased with.

^XLIII “took” = giach. 6x in OT: 3x of birth and labor, 2x of water rushing around, and 1x for rushing out in ambush. This is to burst forth, break forth, labor to bring forth, take out. To gush forth as water, to issue. This is God as midwife.
^XLIV “womb” = beten. This is belly, body, or womb. Root may mean to be hollow.
^XLV “kept me safe” = batach. This is the Hifil form of the word “trusted” in v4.
^XLVI “mother’s” = em. Mother as the bond of the family; human and animal; used literally and figuratively.
^XLVII “breast” = shad. Perhaps from shud (to swell up; waste). This is breast, female breast, also the teat of an animal. Some scholars believe that this is the root of El Shaddai, a name for God in the Bible often translated “God Almighty.”

^XLVIII “cast” = shalak. To throw out, down, or away. To fling, cast, cast away, hurl, pluck. Used figuratively and literally.
^XLIX “from birth” = rechem. Related to racham (compassion, tender love, tender mercy, pity, womb; the womb as cherishing the fetus, thus mercy and compassion). This is a different word for “womb” than the one in v9.
^L “mother bore” = beten + em. Literally “my mother’s womb.”
^LI “God” = el.
^LII “far” = rachaq. Related to “so far” in v1. To widen in any direction; to recede or remove literally or figuratively.
^LIII “trouble” = tsarah. From tsar (adversary, affliction, anguish, distress, a tight place); from tsarar (adversary, to bind, be restricted, narrow, cramped; be in affliction, besiege). This is tightness, figurative for trouble, distress, affliction, anguish, tribulation, an adversary.
^LIV “near” = qarob. From qarab (to come near, approach). This word is near in place, kindred, or time.
^LV “help” = azar. To surround i.e. protect or aid, ally, support.

^LVI “bulls” = par. May be related to parar (defeat, break, frustrate, break up; usually figuratively to violate or frustrate). This word is for a young bull, steer, calf, or ox. It depicts a bullock as having wild strength.
^LVII “strong bulls” = abbir. 17x in OT – 5x of warriors or mighty ones, 5x of bulls; 4x of horses, 1x of a chief, 1x of strength, and 1x of an angel. This is mighty, valiant, chiefest, mighty one, stouthearted.
^LVIII “Bashan” = bashan. means smooth – a region east of the Jordan. Israelites battled and defeated King Og of Bashan when they entered the Promised Land. It was colonized by Manasseh and Golan, a city within Bashan, became a city of refuge. In the Bible, Bashan was known for wild cattle, verdant pastures, oak trees in the forest, and the beauty of its mountains. After the Israelites colonized the Promised Land, they typically call the Bashan region Gilead as well as the rest of the land on the other side of the Jordan River. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashan)
^LIX “open wide” = patsah. 15x in OT – 4x of making vows or speech, 3x of enemies taunting, 3x of rescue, 2x of the earth opening, 1x of people chirping after God’s judgment, and 1x of the angel telling Ezekiel to open his mouth to eat the scroll. This is to part, open, deliver, gape, utter. It is to rend or open, particularly the mouth.
^LX “ravening” = taraph. To tear, rend, pluck, catch, feed. To rend or tear or pluck off or pull to pieces. Causatively, to supply with food.
^LXI “roaring” = shaag. Related to “groaning” in v1. To roar, groan, moan, rumble.
^LXII “lion” = ari. From arah (to gather, pluck). This is a young lion – has the sense of one that pierces.

^LXIII “poured out” = shaphak. To pour out, gush out, slip. To spill forth – blood, libation, liquid metal, a solid. To mound up. Used figuratively for expending life, complain, money. Used intensively to sprawl out, slip.
^LXIV “bones” = etsem. From atsam (bones; to be vast, mighty, numerous; to bind fast – i.e. close the eyes; intransitively to be, causatively to make powerful or numerous; denominatively from etsem to crunch the bones – break the bones). This is bone, substance, self, body, life, strength.
^LXV “out of joint” = parad. To divide, disperse, sever, scatter abroad, stretch. To break through or separate oneself.
^LXVI “heart” = leb. From the same as lebab (inner self, mind, will, heart; the heart as the most interior organ; courage – faint or tenderhearted); perhaps related to labab (cake, to get a mind or to encourage; properly to be enclosed as if with fat; by implication to unheart; in a good sense to transport with love; in a bad sense to stultify; also, to make cakes, ravish, be wise). This is the inner self, mind, will, heart. The heart used figuratively for feelings, will, intellect as well as the center of anything. Heart is always used figuratively in the Old and New Testament.
^LXVII “wax” = donag. 4x in OT – 3x for melt like wax, 1x for burst open like wax.
^LXVIII “melted” = masas. To dissolve, melt, discourage, faint, be loosed, refuse, liquefy. Figuratively, to waste with disease, faint with fatigue, fear, or grief.
^LXIX “breast” = meeh. Internal organs, inward parts, belly, bowels, heart, womb. Root may mean to be soft. Figurative for sympathy.

^LXX “mouth” = koach. Different word from “mouth” in v13. Root means to be firm. This word is ability, strength, power, substance, wealth. force, fruits, vigor, or small reptile. A force good or bad. Figurative for capacity, means, produce.
^LXXI “potsherd” = cheres. 17x in OT – 6x of purity and sacrifice laws, 4x of scraps of pottery, 3x of earthen vessels made by God, 2x of earthenware vessels as a sign, 1x for dryness, and 1x as smooth earthen vessel. This is a piece of pottery or a potsherd.
^LXXII “jaws” = malquoach. 8x in OT – 5x of booty, 1x for jaws, 1x for prey. From laqach (to take, accept, get, buy, seize). This is jaws as that which takes in food. Used intransitively, it is spoil and captives as things that are taken.
^LXXIII “lay” = shaphath. 5x in OT – 3x for setting a pot on the fire, 1x for lay in the dust of death, 1x for God will ordain peace for us. This is to set on the fire, bring, ordain. To locate. Generally to hang on or figuratively to establish, reduce.