1 Samuel 7:12

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּקַּ֨ח שְׁמוּאֵ֜ל אֶ֣בֶן אַחַ֗ת וַיָּ֤שֶׂם בֵּֽין־הַמִּצְפָּה֙ וּבֵ֣ין הַשֵּׁ֔ן וַיִּקְרָ֥א אֶת־שְׁמָ֖הּ אֶ֣בֶן הָעָ֑זֶר וַיֹּאמַ֕ר עַד־הֵ֖נָּה עֲזָרָ֥נוּ יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

And wayyiqqaḥ šĕmûʾēl ʾeben one and wayyāśem between-the-miṣpâ and-between the-šēn and wayyiqrāʾ ʾet-her-name ʾeben hāʿāzer and wayyōʾmar until-here ʿăzārānû YHWH.

Grammar Details

• *wayyiqqaḥ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he took
• *ʾeben*: noun feminine singular - stone
• *wayyāśem*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he set/placed
• *šēn*: noun feminine singular with definite article - the tooth/the crag
• *wayyiqrāʾ*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he called
• *ʾeben hāʿāzer*: noun feminine singular construct + proper noun - stone of the help
• *wayyōʾmar*: waw-consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *ʿăzārānû*: Qal perfect 3rd masculine singular with 1st person plural suffix - he has helped us

Word Meanings

• *wayyāśem*: set/placed/put
• *šēn*: tooth/sharp rock/crag (possibly a place name)
• *ʾeben hāʿāzer*: Ebenezer (stone of help)
• *ʿăzārānû*: helped us/assisted us/supported us

Referenced Verses

• Josh 4:9 : 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
• Gen 35:14 : 14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spake with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured out a drink-offering thereon, and poured oil thereon.
• 1 Sam 5:1 : 1 Now the Philistines had taken the ark of God, and they brought it from Eben-ezer unto Ashdod.
• Acts 26:22 : 22 Having therefore obtained the help that is from God, I stand unto this day testifying both to small and great, saying nothing {G1622} but what the prophets and Moses did say should come;
• Gen 31:45-52 : 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said unto his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they did eat there by the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed: 49 and Mizpah, for he said, Jehovah watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another. 50 If thou shalt afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness betwixt me and thee. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar, which I have set betwixt me and thee. 52 This heap be witness, and the pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
• 2 Cor 1:10 : 10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and will deliver: on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
• Ps 71:17 : 17 O God, thou hast taught me from my youth; And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works.
• Isa 19:19 : 19 In that day shall there be an altar to Jehovah in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Jehovah.
• Isa 46:3-4 : 3 Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borne [by me] from their birth, that have been carried from the womb; 4 and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry [you]; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
• Ps 71:6 : 6 By thee have I been holden up from the womb; Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels: My praise shall be continually of thee.
• Josh 24:26-27 : 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God.
• 1 Sam 4:1 : 1 And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and encamped beside Eben-ezer: and the Philistines encamped in Aphek.
• Exod 17:15 : 15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovah-nissi;
• Gen 22:14 : 14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.
• Gen 28:18-19 : 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it. 19 And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of the city was Luz at the first.