Study it in the app“He said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.”
He saidוַיֹּאמֶרto him,לוֹ“I tooגַּם אֲנִיam a prophetנָבִיאlike you,כָּמוֹךָand an angelוּמַלְאָךְspokeדִּבֶּרto meאֵלַיby the wordבִּדְבַרof YHWH,יְהוָהsaying,לֵאמֹר‘Bring him backהֲשִׁבֵהוּwith youאִתְּךָtoאֶלyour house,בֵּיתֶךָso that he may eatוְיֹאכַלbreadלֶחֶםand drinkוְיֵשְׁתְּwater.’”מָיִםHe liedכִּחֵשׁto him.לוֹ
say
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “yomer” appearsprophet
Someone who speaks for YHWH.
Where else “navi” appearsangel
A messenger from God, a heavenly being.
Where else “malach” appearsspeak
To speak, say something; above all God to his people.
Where else “diber” appearsword
What someone says or announces, above all what YHWH says.
Where else “devar” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yehva” appearsreturn
To go back to a place.
Where else “hashive” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bete” appearseat
To bring food to the mouth and swallow it, above all at a shared table.
Where else “yochal” appearsfood
Everything eaten at the table, even if it is not bread.
Where else “lechem” appearsdrink
Drink.
Where else “yesht” appearswater
Water: for drinking, of rivers or seas.
Where else “mayim” appearsdeny
To say what is not so, or deny what is true.
Where else “kichesh” appearsThe text does not say why the old prophet lied. The word “angel” is the same as “messenger”: he claims that an envoy of YHWH spoke to him, and the narrator makes clear at once that it was not true.
17for a word came to me by the word of YHWH: ‘You shall not eat bread and you shall not drink water there; you shall not return by going by the way that you went by it.’”
18 · This verse (above)
19So he went back with him, and ate bread in his house and drank water.
