Thursday, May 21, 2020

2 Chronicles 7:13-15 annotated

If  ... I send pestilence  among my people,if my people who bear my name humble themselves,and pray and seek my presence and turn from their wicked ways, then I will listen from heaven and forgive their sins and restore their country. Now and for the future my eyes are open and my ears attentive to prayer offered in this place
pestilence= דֶּבֶר= deber
plague

humble= כָּנַע= kana`
submit oneself; bow down; be subdued, be brought down, be low, be under, be brought into subjection; to bend the knee; to be low, depressed in spirit 

pray= פָּלַל= palal
to intervene, interpose, pray; to intercede; intreat; make supplication

seek= בָּקַשׁ= baqash
to seek, require, desire, exact, request; to seek to find; to seek the face; to ask, request; to search out; to strive after:—ask, beg, beseech, desire, enquire; to examine; to entreat, to supplicate

presence= פָּנִים= paniym
face; person; countenance

turn, restore= שׁוּב= shuwb
to return, turn back; to restore, refresh, repair; to bring back, make requital, pay (as recompense); the idea of return to the starting point; cease; convert; rescue, restore, retrieve; reverse; take back; withdraw; to turn oneself; revoke, make void

wicked= רַע= ra`
bad, evil; malignant; giving pain, unhappiness, misery; unkind (vicious in disposition); wicked (ethically); evil((-favouredness); deformed; badness, especially in an ethical sense; malice

listen= שָׁמַע = shama`
to hear, listen to; to hear with attention or interest, listen to; give heed; to hear intelligently; give ear; to understand things heard; 

prayer= תְּפִלָּה= tĕphillah
intercession, supplication; entreaty; hymn, sacred song

forgive= סָלַח= calach
to forgive, pardon; spare; to show oneself gentle

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