What Does Psalm 116:13 Mean in the King James?
I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.
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 cup is deliverance taken up, and the name called is the LORD’s nature addressed aloud.
THE MEANING
You take up deliverance and call on the LORD by his nature, not by a bare label. Receiving and calling meet in the present: deliverance is something you take up, and your voice turns toward the LORD.
THE ROOT
יְשׁוּעוֹת
yeshuot
GROWS FROM
ישע
y-sh-ʿ
Deliverance that brings someone out of constriction and into room.
“salvation” in this verse is yeshuot. The Hebrew word is plural: the cup holds deliverances, not merely an abstract promise of rescue. Its root also carries the movement from narrowness into room, so taking this cup is receiving a way out of constriction.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: to deliver, rescue
יָשַׁע
The verb shows that the cup’s deliverance is an active bringing out.
yeshuah: deliverance, rescue
יְשׁוּעָה
This singular form makes the same root’s movement into a named gift.
moshia: one who delivers
מוֹשִׁיעַ
The branch names the deliverer behind the deliverance being taken up.
אֶקְרָא
ʾeqra
GROWS FROM
קרא
q-r-ʾ
to call out, summon, or proclaim.
The call is voiced and directed; it is more than holding a thought inwardly. The same root can describe reading aloud, so calling on the LORD’s name joins voice with address.
ALSO GROWS
qeri'ah: a calling or reading
קְרִיאָה
This branch keeps the spoken act of calling audible in the verse.
miqra: a reading or convocation
מִקְרָא
A reading or gathering carries the root’s sense of calling something into the open.
THE PATTERN
The voiced call on the LORD’s name is where distress meets deliverance.
This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.THE THREAD
Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.The word translated “called” comes from the same Hebrew root, קרא (qara), meaning to call out or proclaim. Here the earlier cry for deliverance meets the later act of taking up the cup.
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