Psalms 118:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Out of my distress I called upon Jehovah: Jehovah answered me [and set me] in a large place.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מִֽן־הַ֭מֵּצַ֥ר קָרָ֣אתִי יָּ֑הּ עָנָ֖נִי בַמֶּרְחָ֣ב יָֽהּ

Transliteration

From-the-mēṣar qārāʾtî Yāh ʿānānî in-the-merḥāb Yāh

Grammar Details

*mēṣar*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and prefix min - from the distress/straits
*qārāʾtî*: perfect, 1st person singular - I called
*Yāh*: divine name, shortened form - Yah
*ʿānānî*: perfect, 3rd person masculine singular with 1st person suffix - he answered me
*merḥāb*: noun, masculine singular with definite article and prefix bet - in the broad place/spacious place

Word Meanings

*mēṣar*: distress/straits/narrow place/confinement
*qārāʾtî*: I called/I cried out to/I invoked
*ʿānānî*: he answered me/he responded to me
*merḥāb*: broad place/spacious place/wide expanse/freedom

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me forth also into a large place; He delivered me, because he delighted in me.
Ps 40:1-3 : 1 For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for Jehovah; And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. 2 He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay; And he set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. 3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: Many shall see it, and fear, And shall trust in Jehovah.
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 120:1 : 1 A Song of Ascents. In my distress I cried unto Jehovah, And he answered me.
Ps 116:3-4 : 3 The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
Ps 130:1-2 : 1 A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Jehovah. 2 Lord, hear my voice: Let thine ears be attentive To the voice of my supplications.
Mark 14:31-36 : 31 But he spake exceedingly vehemently, If I must die with thee, I will {G3756} not deny thee. {G5615} And in like manner also said they all. 32 And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I pray. 33 And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly amazed, and sore troubled. 34 And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death: abide ye here, and watch. 35 And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass away from him. 36 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit not what I will, but what thou wilt.
Ps 107:13 : 13 Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saved them out of their distresses.
Ps 107:19 : 19 Then they cry unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he saveth them out of their distresses.
1 Sam 30:6-8 : 6 And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in Jehovah his God. 7 And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8 And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, If I pursue after this troop, shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue; for thou shalt surely overtake [them], and shalt without fail recover [all].
Gen 32:7 : 7 Then Jacob was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people that were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;
Gen 32:9-9 : 9 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, O Jehovah, who saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will do thee good: 10 I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies. 11 Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he come and smite me, the mother with the children.
Ps 77:2 : 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.
Ps 31:8 : 8 And thou hast not shut me up into the hand of the enemy; Thou hast set my feet in a large place.

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4Then called I upon the name of Jehovah: O Jehovah, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
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Ps 141:1
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