Joel 2:32

Webster's Bible (1833)

It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; For in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, As Yahweh has said, And among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְהָיָ֗ה כֹּ֧ל אֲשֶׁר־יִקְרָ֛א בְּשֵׁ֥ם יְהוָ֖ה יִמָּלֵ֑ט כִּ֠י בְּהַר־צִיּ֨וֹן וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֜ם תִּֽהְיֶ֣ה פְלֵיטָ֗ה כַּֽאֲשֶׁר֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה וּבַ֨שְּׂרִידִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה קֹרֵֽא׃

Transliteration

And-hāyâ all who-yiqrāʾ in-shēm YHWH yimmālēt because in-har-Tsiyôn and-in-Yerûshālaim tihyeh pelêtâ as ʾāmar YHWH and-in-the-serîdîm whom YHWH qōrēʾ.

Grammar Details

• *hāyâ*: qal perfect consecutive, 3rd person masculine singular - it will be/happen
• *yiqrāʾ*: qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will call
• *shēm*: masculine singular construct - name of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *yimmālēt*: niphal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he will be delivered/escape
• *har*: masculine singular construct - mountain of
• *Tsiyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *Yerûshālaim*: proper noun - Jerusalem
• *tihyeh*: qal imperfect, 3rd person feminine singular - there will be
• *pelêtâ*: feminine singular noun - deliverance/escape
• *ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - he has said
• *serîdîm*: masculine plural noun with definite article - the survivors/remnant
• *qōrēʾ*: qal participle, masculine singular - calling

Word Meanings

• *hāyâ*: it will be/happen/come to pass
• *yiqrāʾ*: he will call/call upon/invoke
• *yimmālēt*: he will be delivered/escape/be saved
• *tihyeh*: there will be/shall be/will exist
• *pelêtâ*: deliverance/escape/survivors
• *serîdîm*: survivors/remnant/those who remain
• *qōrēʾ*: calling/summoning/inviting

Referenced Verses

• Isa 46:13 : 13 I bring near my righteousness, it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not wait; and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.
• Jer 31:7 : 7 For thus says Yahweh, Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout for the chief of the nations: publish you, praise you, and say, Yahweh, save your people, the remnant of Israel.
• Obad 1:17 : 17 But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.
• Rom 9:27 : 27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, "If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, It is the remnant who will be saved;
• Isa 11:11 : 11 It shall happen in that day, that the Lord will set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
• Rom 11:26 : 26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, "There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, And he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
• 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:
• 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 But we are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth; 14 to which he called you through our Gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Rom 10:11-14 : 11 For the Scripture says, "Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed." 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
• Rom 8:28-30 : 28 We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose. 29 For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} 30 Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.
• Jer 33:3 : 3 Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great things, and difficult, which you don't know.
• Mic 5:3 : 3 Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• Mic 5:7-8 : 7 The remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples, Like dew from Yahweh, Like showers on the grass, That don't wait for man, Nor wait for the sons of men. 8 The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, In the midst of many peoples, Like a lion among the animals of the forest, Like a young lion among the flocks of sheep; Who, if he goes through, treads down and tears in pieces, And there is no one to deliver.
• Zech 13:9 : 9 I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
• John 4:22 : 22 You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
• John 10:16 : 16 I have other sheep, which are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd.
• Acts 2:20-21 : 20 The sun will be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord comes. 21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
• Acts 2:39 : 39 For to you is the promise, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself."
• Acts 15:17 : 17 That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.
• Isa 59:20-21 : 20 A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob, says Yahweh. 21 As for me, this is my covenant with them, says Yahweh: my Spirit who is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed, nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, says Yahweh, from henceforth and forever.
• Isa 11:16 : 16 There shall be a highway for the remnant of his people, who shall remain, from Assyria; like as there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
• Ps 50:15 : 15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
• Isa 4:2 : 2 In that day, Yahweh's branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
• Isa 10:22 : 22 For though your people, Israel, be as the sand of the sea, [only] a remnant of them shall return: a destruction [is] determined, overflowing with righteousness.
• Rom 9:24 : 24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
• Obad 1:21 : 21 Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh's.
• Mic 4:6-7 : 6 "In that day," says Yahweh, "I will assemble that which is lame, And I will gather that which is driven away, And that which I have afflicted; 7 And I will make that which was lame a remnant, And that which was cast far off a strong nation: And Yahweh will reign over them on Mount Zion from then on, even forever.
• Rom 11:5 : 5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
• Rom 11:7 : 7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
• Heb 12:22 : 22 But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,