יַצִּילֵ֕נִי מֵאֹיְבִ֖י עָ֑ז מִשֹּׂ֣נְאַ֔י כִּ֥י אָמְצ֖וּ מִמֶּֽנִּי
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Samuel 22:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Samuel 22:18 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
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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King James Version Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from the ones hating me, for they were stronger than me.
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
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From those who hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He rescued me from my powerful enemy, from foes too mighty for me.
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King James Version Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from them that hated me; for they were too mighty for me.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
He deliuered me from my strong enemie, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
He delivered me from my most mighty enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
He delivereth me from my strong enemy, From those hating me, For they were stronger than I.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He delivers me from my strong enemy, || From those hating me, || For they were stronger than me.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He rescued me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too strong for me.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from the ones hating me, for they were stronger than me.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, From them that hated me; For they were mightier than I.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
He delivered me from my strong enemy, from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He rescued me from my powerful enemies, from those who hated me and who were much stronger than me.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
He delivered me from mine enemy most strong, from them that hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
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עָ֑ז
ʻaz
H5794
“strong”
Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 24× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 49:3
- Part of Speech
- Adjective
- Type
- Adjective
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
strong, mighty, fierce
- יַצִּילֵ֕נִי nâtsal H5337 “to rescue · me” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- מֵאֹיְבִ֖י ʼôyêb H341 “from · enemy · me” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- עָ֑ז ʻaz H5794 “strong” Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- מִשֹּׂ֣נְאַ֔י sânêʼ H8130 “from · hating · me” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- כִּ֥י kîy H3588 “that” Conjunction
- אָמְצ֖וּ ʼâmats H553 “to be strong” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- מִמֶּֽנִּי min H4480 “from · me” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
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 →
- 7
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is עָ֑ז strong H5794 — appearing just 24 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
עָ֑ז strong H5794 occurs in 24 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 4 verbs
- 1 adjective
- 1 preposition
- 1 conjunction
Verb forms
- יַצִּילֵ֕נִי Hiphil · Imperfect
- מֵאֹיְבִ֖י Qal · Participle Active
- מִשֹּׂ֣נְאַ֔י Qal · Participle Active
- אָמְצ֖וּ Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 18 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
5Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:18 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 3:7 Arise, Yahweh! Save me, my God! For you have struck all of my enemies on the cheek bone. You have broken the teeth of the wicked.
- Psalms 56:9 Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this, that God is for me.
- 2 Corinthians 1:10 who delivered us out of so great a death, and does deliver; on whom we have set our hope that he will also still deliver us;
- 2 Timothy 4:17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
- 2 Samuel 22:1 David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:
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.
ῥύομαι ἐγώ ἐκ ἐχθρός ἐγώ ἰσχύς ἐκ ὁ μισέω ἐγώ ὅτι κραταιόω ὑπέρ ἐγώ
He delivered me from my strong enemies, from them that hated me, for they were stronger than I.
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)
שֵׁיזְבַנִי מִסַנְאַי אֲרֵי תַקְפַנִי מִבַּעֲלֵי דְבָבֵי אֲרֵי אִתְגַבָּרוּ עֲלָי:
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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.
2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʻaz (“strong”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word ʻaz carries the sense “strong.” How does it shape the verse?
- Genesis 49:3 shares the word «strong» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «יַצִּילֵ֕נִי» is Hiphil Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 7 words in this verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 22:18 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 →
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.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — 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.