2 Chronicles 6:33

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

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מִמְּכ֣וֹן

mâkôwn

H4349

“from · foundation of”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct

Appears 17× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 15:17

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3559

TWOT: 964c

fixed or established place, foundation - fixed place - foundation

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 →

32: words
25: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מִמְּכ֣וֹן foundation H4349 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מִמְּכ֣וֹן foundation H4349 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

9 verbs
11 nouns
1 adjective
2 pronouns
4 prepositions
1 conjunction
4 particles

Verb forms

תִּשְׁמַ֤ע Qal · Imperfect
שִׁבְתֶּ֔ךָ Qal · Infinitive Construct
וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ Qal · Sequential Perfect
יִקְרָ֥א Qal · Imperfect
יֵדְעוּ֩ Qal · Imperfect
וּלְיִרְאָ֤ה Qal · Infinitive Construct
וְלָדַ֕עַת Qal · Infinitive Construct
נִקְרָ֔א Niphal · Perfect
בָּנִֽיתִי Qal · Perfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

כְּכֹ֛ל all H3605 ×2
יִקְרָ֥א to call H7121 ×2
יֵדְעוּ֩ to know H3045 ×2
עַמֵּ֨י people H5971 ×2
שְׁמֶ֗ךָ name H8034 ×2
אֲשֶׁר which H834 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 56 words from the Hebrew and 65 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.

In the original languages it is 32 Hebrew tokens and 52 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to 2 Chronicles 6:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Numbers 6:27 "So they shall put my name on the children of Israel; and I will bless them."
1 Samuel 17:46 This day will Yahweh deliver you into my hand; and I will strike you, and take your head from off you; and I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
1 Kings 8:16 Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build a house, that my name might be there; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.
2 Kings 19:19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone.
Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
Psalms 46:10 "Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth."
Psalms 67:2 That your way may be known on earth, And your salvation among all nations,

Psalms 138:4–5 All the kings of the earth will give you thanks, Yahweh, For they have heard the words of your mouth.
Isaiah 11:10 It shall happen in that day, that the root of Jesse, who stands for an ensign of the peoples, to him shall the nations seek; and his resting-place shall be glorious.
Isaiah 49:6 yes, he says, It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.
Isaiah 54:1–3 Sing, barren, you who didn't bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 10:7 Who should not fear you, King of the nations? for to you does it appertain; because among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their royal estate, there is none like you.
Revelation 11:15 The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the Kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ. He will reign forever and ever!"

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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.

Hebrew 2 Chronicles 6:33 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַתָּ֞ה תִּשְׁמַ֤ע מִן הַשָּׁמַ֨יִם֙ מִמְּכ֣וֹן שִׁבְתֶּ֔ךָ וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ כְּכֹ֛ל אֲשֶׁר יִקְרָ֥א אֵלֶ֖יךָ הַנָּכְרִ֑י לְמַ֣עַן יֵדְעוּ֩ כָל עַמֵּ֨י הָאָ֜רֶץ אֶת שְׁמֶ֗ךָ וּלְיִרְאָ֤ה אֹֽתְךָ֙ כְּעַמְּךָ֣ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְלָדַ֕עַת כִּֽי שִׁמְךָ֣ נִקְרָ֔א עַל הַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּנִֽיתִי

then hear from heaven, even from your dwelling-place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, and fear you, as does your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Chronicles 6:33 Septuagint · lemma form

καί εἰςἀκούω ἐκ ὁ οὐρανός ἐκ ἕτοιμος κατοικητήριον σύ καί ποιέω κατά πᾶς ὅσος ἐάν ἐπικαλέω σύ ὁ ἀλλότριος ὅπως γιγνώσκω πᾶς ὁ λαός ὁ γῆ ὁ ὄνομα σύ καί ὁ φοβέω σύ ὡς ὁ λαός σύ ἰσραήλ καί ὁ γιγνώσκω ὅτι ἐπικαλέω ὁ ὄνομα σύ ἐπί ὁ οἶκος οὗτος ὅς οἰκοδομέω

then shall you listen out of heaven, out of your prepared dwelling-place, and shall do according to all that the stranger shall call upon you for; that all the nations of the earth may know your name, and that they may fear you, as your people Israel do, and that they may know that your name is called upon this house which I have built.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

On this verse, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers discusses the Septuagint’s reading. Read the note in Commentary ↓

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 →

Commentary

Notes on 2 Chronicles 6:33 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 →

Joseph Benson's Commentary

2Ch 6:33. May know that this house is called by thy name — That it is truly the house of the Almighty Jehovah. Solomon knew that the goodness of God was so immense, that the extending it, how much soever, toward other people, neither would nor could lessen the exercise of it toward Israel.

Joseph Benson's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1811–1818) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(33) Then.—(And) Kings omits; but compare 2Ch_6:30; 2Ch_6:27; 2Ch_6:23, which have the particle. So also some MSS., as well as the LXX., and Syriac, of Kings.

People.—The peoples.

And fear thee.—Better without and; as in Kings, “that they may fear thee.” So Syriac.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

33. all people] R.V. all the peoples. For this change see R.V. Preface, p. vi

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

House, that they may know that this is not only called, but is, in effect, the temple of the Lord, where he will display his power and goodness. (Haydock)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

and You shall do whatever the stranger calls upon You Concerning an Israelite, I pray to give him according to his ways, but concerning a heathen, according to all the stranger calls upon You, because Israelites recognize the Holy One, blessed be He, and they know that He has the ability to do, and if his prayer is not heard, he assigns the cause to himself, to his sins, and he searches his deeds, but the heathen will complain of injustice and say, “I heard His fame throughout the world, and I toiled on many roads until I came and prayed in this place, and I did not find reality in Him any more than the other deities.” Therefore, You shall do whatever the stranger calls upon You.

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.

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.

2 Chronicles, in the Historical, opens this verse with 32 words (25 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâkôwn (“foundation”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word mâkôwn carries the sense “foundation.” How does it shape the verse?
Exodus 15:17 shares the word «foundation» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“all” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
The verb «תִּשְׁמַ֤ע» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Joseph Benson's Commentary and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 32 Hebrew ↔ 52 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 17 words in this verse.
“all” occurs 2× in this single verse.
25 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 32 words in this verse.