Psalm 61:2
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I."
Word-by-Word Analysis
קֵץ
qêts
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
אֶרֶץ
ʼerets
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
קָרָא
qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
לֵב
lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
עָטַף
ʻâṭaph
to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
נָחָה
nâchâh
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
צוּר
tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
גָּבֹהַּ
gâbôahh
elevated (or elated), powerful, arrogant
Key Terms in This Verse
עָטַף ʻâṭaph
to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
Study H5848 →נָחָה nâchâh
to guide; by implication, to transport (into exile, or as colonists)
Study H5148 →צוּר tsûwr
properly, a cliff (or sharp rock, as compressed); generally, a rock or boulder; figuratively, a refuge; also an edge (as precipitous)
Study H6697 →קָרָא qârâʼ
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
Study H7121 →לֵב lêb
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
Study H3820 →Cross References
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence; I shall not be moved.
But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
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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