Psalms 28:2

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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, I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy: and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple.
• Ps 138:2 : 2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise 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 before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
• Ps 134:2 : 2 Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.
• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
• Ps 140:6 : 6 I said unto the LORD, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O LORD.
• Ps 63:4 : 4 Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
• Ps 125:5 : 5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
• 1 Kgs 6:19 : 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
• 1 Kgs 6:22-23 : 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold. 23 And within the oracle he made two cherubims of olive tree, each ten cubits high.
• 1 Kgs 8:6-8 : 6 And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims. 7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above. 8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and 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 LORD my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day: 29 That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make 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: and 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, which 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 brasen scaffold, of 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 congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,
• Ps 143:6 : 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
• Lam 2:19 : 19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine 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 in the top of every street.
• Dan 6:10 : 10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.