וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם אֶת תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם וְאֶת תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ מִשְׁפָּטָֽם
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
World English Bible · Public Domain
1 Kings 8:45
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 1 Kings 8:45 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
English Translation
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
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Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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King James Version Public Domain
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
then may you hear the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
then may You hear from heaven their prayer and their plea, and may You uphold their cause.
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King James Version Public Domain
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Heare thou then in heauen their prayer and their supplication, and iudge their cause.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And then hear thou in heaven their prayers, and their supplications, and do judgment for them.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
then Thou hast heard in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and hast maintained their cause.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
then You have heard their prayer and their supplication in the heavens, and have maintained their cause.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Then listen in the heavens to their prayer and their request, and help their cause.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
then may you hear the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and may you do their justice.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
then hear thou in the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
then hear from heaven what they are praying and asking for, and support their cause.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Give ear in heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
then hear Thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם
tᵉchinnâh
H8467
“supplication · their”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- Appears 25× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Joshua 11:20
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
favour, supplication, supplication for favour
- favour
- supplication for favour
- וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ shâmaʻ H8085 “and · to hear” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- הַשָּׁמַ֔יִם shâmayim H8064 “the · heaven(s)” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- תְּפִלָּתָ֖ם tᵉphillâh H8605 “prayer · their” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם tᵉchinnâh H8467 “supplication · their” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- מִשְׁפָּטָֽם mishpâṭ H4941 “judgment · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
About this verse
These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם supplication H8467 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תְּחִנָּתָ֑ם supplication H8467 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 4 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וְעָשִׂ֖יתָ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 13 words from the Hebrew and 17 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
Cross-references
2Topical passages linked to 1 Kings 8:45 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Genesis 18:25 Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"
- Psalms 9:4 For you have maintained my just cause. You sit on the throne judging righteously.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί εἰςἀκούω ἐκ ὁ οὐρανός ὁ δέησις αὐτός καί ὁ προσευχή αὐτός καί ποιέω ὁ δικαίωμα αὐτός
then shall you hear from heaven their supplication and their prayer, and shall execute judgment for them.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)
The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.
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Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)
וּתְקַבֵּל מִן שְׁמַיָא יַת צְלוֹתְהוֹן וְיַת בָּעוּתְהוֹן וְתִתְפְּרַע עוּלְבַּנְהוֹן:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
1 Kings, in the Historical, opens this verse with 8 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tᵉchinnâh (“supplication”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “supplication” (tᵉchinnâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- Joshua 11:20 shares the word «supplication» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
- The verb «וְשָׁמַעְתָּ֙» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 8 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 1 Kings 8:45 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →
Trapp's Complete Commentary
John Trapp
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Rashi
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)
Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.