2 Samuel 22:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

In my distress I called upon Jehovah; Yea, I called unto my God: And he heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry [came] into his ears.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בַּצַּר־לִי֙ אֶקְרָ֣א יְהוָ֔ה וְאֶל־אֱלֹהַ֖י אֶקְרָ֑א וַיִּשְׁמַ֤ע מֵהֵֽיכָלוֹ֙ קוֹלִ֔י וְשַׁוְעָתִ֖י בְּאָזְנָֽיו׃

Transliteration

In ṣar-to me I ʾeqrāʾ YHWH, and to-ʾĕlōhay I ʾeqrāʾ; and wayyišmaʿ from hêkālô qôlî, and šawʿātî in ʾoznāyw.

Grammar Details

• *ṣar*: masculine noun - distress
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: Qal imperfect 1cs - I call
• *YHWH*: divine name - LORD
• *ʾĕlōhay*: masculine plural noun with 1cs suffix - my God
• *wayyišmaʿ*: Qal imperfect 3ms with waw-consecutive - and he heard
• *hêkālô*: masculine noun with 3ms suffix - his temple/palace
• *qôlî*: masculine noun with 1cs suffix - my voice
• *šawʿātî*: feminine noun with 1cs suffix - my cry
• *ʾoznāyw*: feminine dual noun with 3ms suffix - his ears

Word Meanings

• *ṣar*: distress, trouble, anguish
• *ʾeqrāʾ*: call, cry out, invoke
• *hêkālô*: his temple, his palace, his sanctuary
• *šawʿātî*: my cry for help, my plea, my supplication

Referenced Verses

• Ps 116:4 : 4 Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
• Ps 120:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.
• Ps 18:6 : 6 In my distress I called upon Jehovah, And cried unto my God: He heard my voice out of his temple, And my cry before him came into his ears.
• Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man cried, and Jehovah heard him, And saved him out of all his troubles.
• Ps 34:15-17 : 15 The eyes of Jehovah are toward the righteous, And his ears are [open] unto their cry. 16 The face of Jehovah is against them that do evil, To cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 [ The righteous] cried, and Jehovah heard, And delivered them out of all their troubles.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after; That I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, To behold the beauty of Jehovah, And to inquire in his temple.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And Jehovah said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people that are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;
• 1 Kgs 8:28-30 : 28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Jehovah my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer which thy servant prayeth before thee this day; 29 that thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place whereof thou hast said, My name shall be there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place. 30 And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: yea, hear thou in heaven thy dwelling - place; and when thou hearest, forgive.
• Jonah 2:4 : 4 And I said, I am cast out from before thine eyes; Yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 When my soul fainted within me, I remembered Jehovah; And my prayer came in unto thee, into thy holy temple.
• Hab 2:20 : 20 But Jehovah is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
• Matt 26:38-39 : 38 Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went forward a little, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass away from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
• Luke 22:44 : 44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became as it were great drops of blood falling down upon the ground.
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, having offered up {G5037} prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.