Exodus 22:23
Old Testament • 7 words with Strong's data
"If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry;"
Word-by-Word Analysis
עָנָה
ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
אִישׁ
ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
חָכָם
châkâm
wise, (i.e. intelligent, skilful or artful)
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
מוּת
mûwth
to die (literally or figuratively); causatively, to kill
שָׁמַע
shâmaʻ
to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Key Terms in This Verse
עָנָה ʻânâh
to depress literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (in various applications, as follows)
Study H6031 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →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 →אִישׁ ʼîysh
a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
Study H376 →Cross References
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
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.
So that they cause the cry of the poor to come unto him, and he heareth the cry of the afflicted.
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cr...
By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.
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...
He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him: he also will hear their cry, and will save them.
At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and the right of the poor.
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