2 Samuel 22:7
Old Testament • 11 words with Strong's data
"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."
Word-by-Word Analysis
צָרָה
tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
יְהֹוָה
Yᵉhôvâh
Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
צָעַק
tsâʻaq
to shriek; (by implication) to proclaim (an assembly)
אֱלֹהִים
ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of...
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
הֵיכָל
hêykâl
a large public building, such as a palace or temple
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
אֹזֶן
ʼôzen
broadness. i.e. (concrete) the ear (from its form in man)
Key Terms in This Verse
צָרָה tsârâh
tightness (i.e. figuratively, trouble); transitively, a female rival:
Study H6869 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →שָׁמַע shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
Study H8085 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →אֱלֹהִים ʼĕlôhîym
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a supe...
Study H430 →Cross References
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.
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.
In my distress I cried unto the LORD, and he heard me.
When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
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;
But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
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.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
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...
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.
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;
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.
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