What Does 2 Chronicles 6:29 Mean in the King James?
Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The particular wound you know becomes a doorway into prayer when you carry it open-handed toward the house.
THE MEANING
Your prayer rises from the particular wound and ache you know in yourself. Your open hands carry that pain toward the house, where personal grief and the people’s prayer meet.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that prayer must be impersonal dissolves here: the verse makes room for each person’s own sore and grief.
THE ROOT
יֵדְעוּ
yēdeʿû
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
to know, recognize, perceive
יָדַע (yādaʿ, know) names knowing by encounter, not mere receipt of information. The prayer follows this knowing: a person recognizes the trouble as their own before opening their hands toward the house.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: to know, recognize
יָדַע
This verb is used for the personal knowing that precedes the prayer in the verse.
daʿat: knowledge, perception
דַּעַת
This noun shows the same root’s movement from knowing to what is recognized.
נִגְעוֹ
nigʿô
GROWS FROM
נגע
n-g-ʿ
to touch or strike
The word rendered “sore” is נִגְעוֹ (nigʿô, his affliction), from a root meaning touch or strike. Its seed gives the affliction the sense of something that has touched or struck this particular person, making the pain concrete rather than generic.
ALSO GROWS
nāgaʿ: to touch, strike
נָגַע
The verb reveals the contact carried in the word for affliction.
negaʿ: a blow, plague, affliction
נֶגַע
This noun shares the verse’s root and makes the sore a specific affliction.
מַכְאֹבוֹ
makʾōvô
GROWS FROM
כאב
k-ʾ-b
to ache, hurt, be in pain
מַכְאֹבוֹ (makʾōvô, his pain) grows from כאב (k-ʾ-b, ache or hurt), joining grief to felt pain. Isaiah uses this same root for “sorrows,” where pain too is named as something known.
ALSO GROWS
kāʾav: to hurt, ache
כָּאַב
The verb names the felt pain at the root of the verse’s word for grief.
makʾōv: pain, sorrow
מַכְאוֹב
This noun is formed from the same root and carries the ache into the verse’s wording.
THE PATTERN
Prayer becomes particular when each person brings the trouble they know into view before God.
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble.Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.THE THREAD
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.Isaiah’s מַכְאֹבוֹת (makʾovot, pains or sorrows) comes from the same root כאב (k-ʾ-b, to ache) as this verse’s מַכְאֹבוֹ (makʾōvô, his pain or grief), and וִידוּעַ (viduaʿ, known or acquainted) shares the ידע (y-d-ʿ, know) root. The verses mirror one another: here each person knows their own grief; there, the figure is described as acquainted with pain.
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