1 Kings 8:22

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּעֲמֹ֣ד שְׁלֹמֹ֗ה לִפְנֵי֙ מִזְבַּ֣ח יְהוָ֔ה נֶ֖גֶד כָּל־קְהַ֣ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וַיִּפְרֹ֥שׂ כַּפָּ֖יו הַשָּׁמָֽיִם׃

Transliteration

And wayyaʿămōḏ Šəlōmōh before mizbaḥ YHWH opposite all-qəhal Yiśrāʾēl and wayyiprōś kappāyw haššāmāyim

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿămōḏ*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he stood
• *Šəlōmōh*: proper noun, masculine singular - Solomon
• *lipnê*: preposition + plural construct - before/in front of
• *mizbaḥ*: masculine singular construct - altar of
• *YHWH*: proper noun - divine name
• *neḡeḏ*: preposition - opposite/in front of
• *kol*: construct - all of
• *qəhal*: masculine singular construct - assembly of
• *Yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *wayyiprōś*: waw-consecutive + qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he spread out
• *kappāyw*: feminine dual noun + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - his palms/hands
• *haššāmāyim*: definite article + masculine plural noun - the heavens

Word Meanings

• *wayyaʿămōḏ*: and he stood/positioned himself
• *lipnê*: before/in front of/in the presence of
• *mizbaḥ*: altar/place of sacrifice
• *neḡeḏ*: opposite/in front of/before
• *qəhal*: assembly/congregation/gathering
• *wayyiprōś*: and he spread out/extended
• *kappāyw*: his palms/hands/open hands
• *haššāmāyim*: the heavens/sky

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And Salomon stode before the altare of the LORDE in the presence of the whole congregacion of Israel, and helde out his handes towarde heauen,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Then Salomon stoode before the altar of the Lorde in the sight of all the Congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes towarde heauen,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Solomon stoode before the aulter of the Lorde in the sight of all the congregation of Israel, and stretched out his handes toward heauen, and sayde:

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  ¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And Solomon standeth before the altar of Jehovah, over-against all the assembly of Israel, and spreadeth his hands towards the heavens,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And Solomon stood before the altar of Jehovah in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

• World English Bible (2000)

  Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Solomon Prays for Israel Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward the sky.

Referenced Verses

• Ezra 9:5 : 5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose from my heaviness, and having torn my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
• Exod 9:33 : 33 And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread out his hands to the LORD: and the thunder and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured on the earth.
• 1 Kgs 8:54 : 54 And it was so, that when Solomon had finished praying all this prayer and supplication to the LORD, he rose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
• Isa 1:15 : 15 And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Exod 9:29 : 29 And Moses said to him, As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the LORD; the thunder shall cease, and there shall be no more hail; that you may know that the earth is the LORD’S.
• 1 Tim 2:8 : 8 I desire, therefore, that people pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands, without anger and doubting.
• 2 Kgs 11:14 : 14 When she looked, there was the king standing by the pillar, according to the custom, with the princes and the trumpeters beside him. All the people of the land rejoiced and blew trumpets, and Athaliah tore her clothes and cried, 'Treason, Treason!'.
• 2 Kgs 23:3 : 3 And the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD and to keep His commandments, His testimonies, and His statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood for the covenant.
• 2 Chr 6:12-42 : 12 And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a bronze scaffold, five cubits long, five cubits wide, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court; and upon it he stood, and knelt down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O LORD God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven or on earth, who keeps covenant and shows mercy unto your servants, that walk before you with all their hearts: 15 You who have kept with your servant David my father what you promised him; and spoke with your mouth, and have fulfilled it with your hand, as it is today. 16 Now therefore, O LORD God of Israel, keep with your servant David my father what you have promised him, saying, There shall not fail you a man in my sight to sit upon the throne of Israel; yet so that your children take heed to their way to walk in my law, as you have walked before me. 17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let your word be verified, which you have spoken to your servant David. 18 But will God indeed dwell with men on the earth? Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you; how much less this house which I have built! 19 Have respect therefore to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and the prayer which your servant prays before you: 20 That your eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place where you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place. 21 Listen therefore to the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven, and when you hear, forgive. 22 If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house; 23 Then hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, by recompensing the wicked, by bringing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness. 24 And if your people Israel be defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall return and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house; 25 Then hear from the heavens, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers. 26 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them; 27 Then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you have taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance. 28 If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is: 29 Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, when everyone knows his own plague and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house: 30 Then hear from heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you only know the hearts of the children of men:) 31 That they may fear you, to walk in your ways, as long as they live in the land which you gave to our fathers. 32 Moreover concerning the foreigner, who is not of your people Israel, but has come from a far country for your great name's sake, and your mighty hand, and your stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house; 33 Then hear from the heavens, even from your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all people of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by your name. 34 If your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name; 35 Then hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause. 36 If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near; 37 Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly; 38 If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name: 39 Then hear from the heavens, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you. 40 Now, my God, I beseech you, let your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. 41 Now therefore arise, O LORD God, into your resting place, you, and the ark of your strength: let your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation, and let your saints rejoice in goodness. 42 O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed: remember the mercies of David your servant.
• Job 11:13 : 13 If you prepare your heart, and stretch out your hands toward Him;
• Ps 28:2 : 2 Hear the voice of my supplications when I cry to you, when I lift up my hands toward your holy sanctuary.
• Ps 63:4 : 4 Thus will I bless you while I live: I will lift up my hands in your name.