Psalms 28:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שְׁמַ֤ע ק֣וֹל תַּ֭חֲנוּנַי בְּשַׁוְּעִ֣י אֵלֶ֑יךָ בְּנָשְׂאִ֥י יָ֝דַ֗י אֶל־דְּבִ֥יר קָדְשֶֽׁךָ׃

Transliteration

Šĕmaʿ qôl taḥănûnay when I šavvĕʿî to ʾēleykā, when I nāśʾî yāday toward dĕbîr of qodšekā.

Grammar Details

• *Šĕmaʿ*: qal imperative masculine singular - hear/listen
• *qôl*: noun masculine construct - voice/sound of
• *taḥănûnay*: noun masculine plural with 1st person singular suffix - my supplications
• *šavvĕʿî*: piel infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my crying out
• *ʾēleykā*: preposition with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - to/unto you
• *nāśʾî*: qal infinitive construct with 1st person singular suffix - my lifting up
• *yāday*: noun feminine dual with 1st person singular suffix - my hands
• *dĕbîr*: noun masculine singular construct - inner sanctuary/holy place
• *qodšekā*: noun masculine singular with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your holiness/holy place

Word Meanings

• *taḥănûnay*: my supplications/my pleas for mercy/my entreaties
• *dĕbîr*: inner sanctuary/holy place/oracle

Referenced Verses

• Ps 5:7 : 7 But as for me, in the abundance of thy lovingkindness will I come into thy house: In thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
• Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, And give thanks unto thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: For thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.
• Ps 141:2 : 2 Let my prayer be set forth as incense before thee; The lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary, And bless ye Jehovah.
• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.
• Ps 140:6 : 6 I said unto Jehovah, Thou art my God: Give ear unto the voice of my supplications, O Jehovah.
• Ps 63:4 : 4 So will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
• 1 Kgs 6:19 : 19 And he prepared an oracle in the midst of the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of Jehovah.
• 1 Kgs 6:22-23 : 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 And in the oracle he made two cherubim of olive-wood, {H6086} each ten cubits high.
• 1 Kgs 8:6-8 : 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Jehovah unto its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim. 7 For the cherubim spread forth their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8 And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the holy place before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there they are unto this day.
• 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.
• 1 Kgs 8:38 : 38 what prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, [or] by all thy people Israel, who shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
• 2 Chr 6:13 : 13 (for Solomon had made a brazen scaffold, five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;)
• Ps 143:6 : 6 I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a weary land. {H5542}
• Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord: Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.
• Dan 6:10 : 10 And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.