2 Samuel 22:25

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

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כְּבֹרִ֖י

bôr

H1252

“like/as · pureness · my”

Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 5× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at 2 Samuel 22:21

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H1305

TWOT: 288d

cleanness, pureness

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
6: distinct lemmas
Historical: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is כְּבֹרִ֖י pureness H1252 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

כְּבֹרִ֖י pureness H1252 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
4 nouns
2 prepositions

Verb forms

וַיָּ֧שֶׁב Hiphil · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 21 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

Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

2 Samuel 22:21 Yahweh rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands has he recompensed me.
Romans 2:7–8 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and incorruptibility, eternal life;
2 Corinthians 5:10 For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.
Proverbs 5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.
Isaiah 3:10 Tell the righteous "Good!" For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew 2 Samuel 22:25 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיָּ֧שֶׁב יְהוָ֛ה לִ֖י כְּצִדְקָתִ֑י כְּבֹרִ֖י לְנֶ֥גֶד עֵינָֽיו

Therefore has Yahweh recompensed me according to my righteousness, According to my cleanness in his eyesight.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 22:25 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ἀποδίδωμι ἐγώ κύριος κατά ὁ δικαιοσύνη ἐγώ καί κατά ὁ καθαριότης ὁ χείρ ἐγώ ἐνώπιον ὁ ὀφθαλμός αὐτός

And the Lord will recompense me according to my righteousness, and according to the purity of my hands in his eye-sight.

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.

Targum Jonathan Prophets (Joshua–Malachi)

וַאֲתֵיב יְיָ לִי כִּזְכוּתִי כִּבְרִירוּתִי קֳדָם מֵימְרֵיהּ:

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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.

Commentary

Notes on 2 Samuel 22:25 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.

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Keil & Delitzsch

C. F. Keil & F. Delitzsch

25 Thus Jehovah repaid me according to my righteousness,

According to my cleanness before His eyes.

26 Towards the pious Thou showest thyself pious,

Towards the perfectly innocent Thou showest thyself innocent.

27 Towards the genuine Thou showest thyself genuine,

And towards the perverse Thou showest thyself crooked.

28 And afflicted people Thou helpest,

And Thine eyes are against the haughty; them Thou humblest.

The motive for deliverance, which was expounded in Sa2 22:21-24, is summed up briefly in Sa2 22:25; and then in Sa2 22:26 and Sa2 22:27 it is carried back to the general truth, that the conduct of God towards men is regulated according to the conduct of men towards God. The vav cons. in ויּשׁב expresses the logical consequence. כּברי is used instead of ידי כּבר in Sa2 22:21, which is repeated in the psalm simply for the sake of variation. The truth that God treats every man in accordance with his conduct towards Him, is expounded in four parallel clauses, in which the conduct of God is expressed in verbs in the Hithpael, formed from the adjectives used to describe the conduct of men towards God. To the חסיד, the pious or devoted to God, He also shows himself pious; and innocent, blameless, to the תמים גּבּור, the man strong in innocence, who walks in perfect innocence. נבר, a Niphal participle, from בּרר, he who keeps himself pure, strives after purity of walk. תּתּבר, an anomalous contraction of תּתבּרר (Ps.), analogous to the formation of נבר for נברר. The form תּתּפּל for תּתפּתּל, to show one's self perverse of crooked, is still more anomalous. God shows himself so towards the perverse, by giving him up to his perverseness (Rom 1:28). This general truth is applied in Sa2 22:28 to the congregation of God, in the contrast which it presents of humble and haughty, and is expounded from the conduct of God, as displayed in the history of Israel, towards these two classes of men, into which the nation was divided. In the psalm, therefore, we find אתּה כּי, for which the simple ו is substituted here, because the verse does not contain any actual reason for what goes before. עני עם, afflicted people, is used to denote the pious and depressed in the nation; רמים, the high, i.e., the haughty, or godless rich and mighty in the nation. תּשׁפּיל is to be taken as a relative: whom Thou humblest (see Ewald, 332, b.; and for the thought, Isa 2:11). In the psalm the unusual mode of expression in the second clause is changed into the more common phrase, "Thou bringest down high, i.e., proud looks" (cf. Pro 6:17; Pro 21:4; Pro 30:13; Psa 131:1, etc.).

Keil & Delitzsch — Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1861–1891) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API. (Old Testament only.)

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(25) To my cleanness.—Psalms 18, more poetically. “to the cleanness of my hands.”

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

25. The assertion of 2Sa_22:21 is repeated as the conclusion to be drawn from the review of his conduct in 2Sa_22:22-24, and is confirmed in the following verses by a consideration of the general laws of God’s moral government.

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.

John Gill's Exposition

The Lord liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation. See Gill on Psa 18:46.

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2 Samuel 22:48

sa2 22:48

sa2 22:48

sa2 22:48It is God that avengeth me, and that bringeth down the people under me. See Gill on Psa 18:47.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Lesson kit

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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is bôr (“pureness”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

The word bôr carries the sense “pureness.” How does it shape the verse?
2 Samuel 22:21 shares the word «pureness» 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 «וַיָּ֧שֶׁב» is Hiphil Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how Keil & Delitzsch and Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.