2 Samuel 22:6

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

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קִדְּמֻ֖נִי

qâdam

H6923

“to meet · me”

Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural + Suffix, Personal, 1st Person, Common, Singular

Appears 26× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Deuteronomy 23:4

Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 1988

to meet, come or be in front, confront, go before - (Piel) - to meet, confront, come to meet, receive - to go before, go in front, be in front - to lead, be beforehand, anticipate, forestall - (Hiphil) - to come in front - to confront, anticipate

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

Shared distinctive vocabulary

קִדְּמֻ֖נִי to meet H6923 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

2 verbs
4 nouns

Verb forms

סַבֻּ֑נִי Qal · Perfect
קִדְּמֻ֖נִי Piel · Perfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 6 Hebrew tokens and 8 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 Samuel 22:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Psalms 116:3 The cords of death surrounded me, The pains of Sheol got a hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Job 36:8 If they are bound in fetters, And are taken in the cords of afflictions,
Psalms 18:5 The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.
Psalms 140:5 The proud have hidden a snare for me, They have spread the cords of a net by the path. They have set traps for me. Selah.
Proverbs 5:22 The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.
Proverbs 13:14 The teaching of the wise is a spring of life, To turn from the snares of death.
Proverbs 14:27 The fear of Yahweh is a fountain of life, Turning people from the snares of death.
Jonah 2:2 He said, "I called because of my affliction to Yahweh. He answered me. Out of the belly of Sheol I cried. You heard my voice.

Acts 2:24 whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.

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 22:6 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

חֶבְלֵ֥י שְׁא֖וֹל סַבֻּ֑נִי קִדְּמֻ֖נִי מֹֽקְשֵׁי מָֽוֶת

The cords of Sheol were round about me; The snares of death came on me.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX 2 Samuel 22:6 Septuagint · lemma form

ὠδίν θάνατος κυκλόω ἐγώ προφθάνω ἐγώ σκληρότης θάνατος

the pangs of death surrounded me, the agonies of death prevented me.

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)

מַשִׁרְיַת רַשִׁיעִין אַקְפוּנִי קַדְמוּנִי דִמְזַיְנִין בְּמָנֵי קְטוֹל:

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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 22:6 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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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

6. the sorrows of hell] The word may no doubt mean pangs, as it is translated in the Sept. (ὠδῖνες, cp. Act_2:24); but is better explained of the cords or nets of the hunter. Hell is Sheôl (Gr. Hades), the mysterious unseen world, ready to seize and swallow up its victim. See note on 1Sa_2:6.

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

He bowed the heavens also, and came down; and darkness was under his feet. See Gill on Psa 18:9.

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2 Samuel 22:11

sa2 22:11

sa2 22:11

sa2 22:11And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: and he was seen upon the wings of the wind. See Gill on Psa 18:10.

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

6. Bands of Sheol — The dark under-world seemed to open upon him, and reach out those bands which bind and drag down mortals into its oblivion. Job_14:20-21.

Snares of death — Death, like a hunter, seemed to David to have set snares all along the path where he was to go.

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)

The agony. As [Yonoson] translates, "Groups," as [we find], "Group of prophets."

Were before me. Came before me.

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

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

Discussion questions

The word qâdam carries the sense “to meet.” How does it shape the verse?
How does Deuteronomy 23:4, which shares the word «to meet», read alongside this verse?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
«סַבֻּ֑נִי» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 6 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 6 words in this verse.