Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
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Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
the one magnifying the salvation of his king and doing covenant faithfulness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed until forever.”
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Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.”
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king, And showeth lovingkindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, for evermore.
Great deliverance giveth he to his king: and sheweth lovingkindness to his anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
He is the tower of saluation for his King, and sheweth mercie to his anointed, euen to Dauid, and to his seede for euer.
Giving great salvation to his king, and shewing mercy to David his anointed, and to his seed for ever.
Magnifying the salvations of His king, And doing loving-kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!'
Magnifying the salvations of His king, || And doing loving-kindness to His anointed, || To David, and to his seed—for all time!”
God gives great victory to his king, and he shows his covenant loyalty to his anointed one, to David and to his descendants forever.”
the one magnifying the salvation of his king and doing covenant faithfulness to his anointed, to David, and to his seed until forever.”
[It is he] who giveth great deliverances to his king, And sheweth loving-kindness to his anointed, To David, and to his seed for evermore.
He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.”
He is the tower of salvation for his king: and he showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.
You have saved the king so often, showing your trustworthy love to David, your anointed, and to his descendants forever.”
Great salvation does he give to his king; he has mercy on the king of his selection, David, and on his seed for ever.
A tower of salvation is He to His king; and showeth mercy to His anointed, to David and to his seed, for evermore.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מִגְדּ֖וֹל tower H4024 — appearing just 7 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִגְדּ֖וֹל tower H4024 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Verb forms
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 20 words from the Hebrew and 22 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 11 Hebrew tokens and 18 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.
Topical passages linked to 2 Samuel 22:51 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
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מגדיל מִגְדּ֖וֹל יְשׁוּע֣וֹת מַלְכּ֑וֹ וְעֹֽשֶׂה חֶ֧סֶד לִמְשִׁיח֛וֹ לְדָוִ֥ד וּלְזַרְע֖וֹ עַד עוֹלָֽם
Great deliverance gives he to his king, Shows loving kindness to his anointed, To David and to his seed, forevermore.
World English Bible · Public Domain
μεγαλύνω σωτηρία βασιλεύς αὐτός καί ποιέω ἔλεος ὁ χριστός αὐτός ὁ δαυίδ καί ὁ σπέρμα αὐτός ἕως αἰών
He magnifies the salvation of his king, and works mercy for his anointed, even for David and for his seed for ever.
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 →
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.
מַסְגֵי לְמֶעְבַּד פּוּרְקַן עִם מַלְכֵּיהּ וְעָבֵד טֵיבוּ לִמְשִׁיחֵיהּ לְדָוִד וּלְזַרְעֵיהּ עַד עַלְמָא:
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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.
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2 Samuel, in the Historical, opens this verse with 11 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is Migdôwl (“tower”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on 2 Samuel 22:51 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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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers
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
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.