2 Samuel 22:7

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried to my God: and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter 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 the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
• Ps 120:1 : 1 A Song of degrees. In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
• Ps 18:6 : 6 In my distress I called upon the LORD, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
• Ps 34:6 : 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
• Ps 34:15-17 : 15 The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. 16 The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. 17 The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.
• Ps 27:4 : 4 One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
• Exod 3:7 : 7 And the LORD said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which 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 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.
• Jonah 2:4 : 4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
• Hab 2:20 : 20 But the LORD 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: tarry ye here, and watch with me. 39 And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass 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 was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
• Heb 5:7 : 7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.