Isaiah 38:5

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הָל֞וֹךְ וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֗הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֤ר יְהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵי֙ דָּוִ֣ד אָבִ֔יךָ שָׁמַ֙עְתִּי֙ אֶת־תְּפִלָּתֶ֔ךָ רָאִ֖יתִי אֶת־דִּמְעָתֶ֑ךָ הִנְנִי֙ יוֹסִ֣ף עַל־יָמֶ֔יךָ חֲמֵ֥שׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֖ה שָׁנָֽה׃

Transliteration

Hālôk and-wəʾāmartā to-Ḥizqîyāhû thus-kōh-ʾāmar YHWH ʾĕlōhê Dāwid ʾābîkā šāmaʿtî ʾet-təpillātekā rāʾîtî ʾet-dimʿātekā behold-me yôsip upon-yāmêkā ḥămēš ʿeśrēh šānāh.

Grammar Details

*Hālôk*: qal infinitive absolute - go
*wəʾāmartā*: qal perfect, 2nd person masculine singular with waw conjunction - and you shall say
*Ḥizqîyāhû*: proper noun - Hezekiah
*kōh*: adverb - thus, so
*ʾāmar*: qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
*YHWH*: proper noun - LORD
*ʾĕlōhê*: masculine plural construct noun - God of
*Dāwid*: proper noun - David
*ʾābîkā*: masculine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your father
*šāmaʿtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have heard
*təpillātekā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your prayer
*rāʾîtî*: qal perfect, 1st person singular - I have seen
*dimʿātekā*: feminine singular noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your tear
*yôsip*: qal participle, masculine singular - adding
*yāmêkā*: masculine plural noun with 2nd person masculine singular suffix - your days
*ḥămēš*: numeral, feminine - five
*ʿeśrēh*: numeral, feminine - ten
*šānāh*: feminine singular noun - year

Word Meanings

*ʾĕlōhê*: God of, deity of
*šāmaʿtî*: I have heard, I have listened to, I have obeyed
*təpillātekā*: your prayer, your petition
*dimʿātekā*: your tear, your weeping
*yôsip*: adding, increasing, prolonging

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Referenced Verses

2 Kgs 18:2 : 2 Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
2 Kgs 18:13 : 13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
2 Kgs 19:20 : 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
1 Chr 17:2-4 : 2 Then Nathan said unto David, Do all that is in thine heart; for God is with thee. 3 And it came to pass the same night, that the word of God came to Nathan, saying, 4 Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the LORD, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:
2 Chr 34:3 : 3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.
Job 14:5 : 5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
Ps 34:5-6 : 5 They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed. 6 This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
Ps 39:12 : 12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear{H8685)} unto my cry; hold not thy peace{H8799)} at my tears: for I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.
Ps 56:8 : 8 Thou tellest{H8804)} my wanderings: put{H8798)} thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?
Ps 89:3-4 : 3 I have made{H8804)} a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn{H8738)} unto David my servant, 4 Thy seed will I establish{H8686)} for ever, and build up{H8804)} thy throne to all generations. Selah.
Ps 116:15 : 15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
Ps 147:3 : 3 He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.
Isa 7:13-14 : 13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? 14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Matt 22:32 : 32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
Luke 1:13 : 13 But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.
Acts 27:24 : 24 Saying, Fear not, Paul; thou must be brought before Caesar: and, lo, God hath given thee all them that sail with thee.
2 Cor 7:6 : 6 Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;
1 John 5:14-15 : 14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: 15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Rev 7:17 : 17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.
2 Sam 7:3-5 : 3 And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the LORD is with thee. 4 And it came to pass that night, that the word of the LORD came unto Nathan, saying, 5 Go and tell my servant David, Thus saith the LORD, Shalt thou build me an house for me to dwell in?
1 Kgs 8:25 : 25 Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him, saying, There shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel; so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before me as thou hast walked before me.
1 Kgs 9:4-5 : 4 And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments: 5 Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.
1 Kgs 11:12-13 : 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son. 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
1 Kgs 15:4 : 4 Nevertheless for David's sake did the LORD his God give him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem:

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