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What is a michtam in the Bible?



      

Psalms 16:1 - 11

ESV - 1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. 2 I say to the Lord, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.

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Shea S. Michael Houdmann Supporter Got Questions Ministries
No one is precisely sure what a michtam (or miktam) was, and that's why the Hebrew word remains as a transliteration in our English Bibles. Translators didn't know how to translate michtam, so they...

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