תַּרְחִ֥יב צַעֲדִ֖י תַּחְתֵּ֑נִי וְלֹ֥א מָעֲד֖וּ קַרְסֻלָּֽי
You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.
World English Bible · Public Domain
2 Samuel 22:37
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) 2 Samuel 22:37 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
You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.
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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
You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.
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King James Version Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
You enlarge my step under me, and my feet do not slip.
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
You have enlarged my steps under me; My feet have not slipped.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.
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King James Version Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet did not slip.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; And my feet have not slipped.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Thou hast inlarged my steppes vnder me, and mine heeles haue not slid.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Thou shalt enlarge my steps under me: and my ankles shall not fail.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
You enlarge my step under me, || And my ankles have not slipped.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You have made a wide place for my feet beneath me, so my feet have not slipped.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
You enlarge my step under me, and my feet do not slip.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Thou enlargedst my steps under me; And mine ankles did not slip.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You have enlarged my steps under me. My feet have not slipped.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; so that my feet have not slipped.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
You gave me room to walk, and prevented my feet from slipping.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
You have made my steps wide under me, so that my feet make no slip.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
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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קַרְסֻלָּֽי
qarçôl
H7166
“ankles · my”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- Appears 2× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears here
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Dual
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
ankle
- תַּרְחִ֥יב râchab H7337 “to grow wide” Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- צַעֲדִ֖י tsaʻad H6806 “step · my” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- תַּחְתֵּ֑נִי tachath H8478 “under · me” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular
- וְלֹ֥א lôʼ H3808 “and · not” Conjunction + Particle, Negative
- מָעֲד֖וּ mâʻad H4571 “to slip” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- קַרְסֻלָּֽי qarçôl H7166 “ankles · my” Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Construct + 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 →
- 6
- words
- 6
- distinct lemmas
- Historical
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קַרְסֻלָּֽי ankle H7166 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
First appearance in Scripture
These words make their first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קַרְסֻלָּֽי ankle H7166 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 1 preposition
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- תַּרְחִ֥יב Hiphil · Imperfect
- מָעֲד֖וּ Qal · Perfect
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 12 words from the Hebrew and 16 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
7Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:37 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Psalms 17:5 My steps have held fast to your paths, My feet have not slipped.
- Proverbs 4:12 When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.
- 1 Samuel 2:9 He will keep the feet of his holy ones; But the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail.
- Psalms 4:1 Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
- Psalms 18:36 You have enlarged my steps under me, My feet have not slipped.
- Psalms 94:18 When I said, "My foot is slipping!" Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
- Psalms 121:3 He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
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.
εἰς πλατυσμός εἰς ὁ διάβημα ἐγώ ὑποκάτω ἐγώ καί οὐ σαλεύω ὁ σκέλος ἐγώ
so as to make room under me for my going, and my legs did not totter.
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)
אַסְגִיתָא פְּסִיעָתִי תְּחוֹתָי וְלָא אִזְדַעְזְעָא רְכוּבָתִי:
(no public-domain English translation for this verse)
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 6 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qarçôl (“ankle”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “ankle” (qarçôl) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- 2 words make their first appearance in Scripture here. What does this debut establish?
- How does Psalms 18:36, which shares the word «ankle», read alongside this verse?
- 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?
- «תַּרְחִ֥יב» is a Hiphil Imperfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- 2 words make their first canonical appearance in Scripture here.
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 22:37 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 →
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.
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.